- You will never know or have heard everything. Always be willing to be proven "not entirely correct."
- All good music is about life; its passions, pleasures, tragedies, unrequited longings, joys, loves and pains. So be willing to grant that all musical genres have something to say worth listening to.
- Sometimes the artist DOES know what he's doing better than you do. As Mel Brooks once said, "I'm the performer, you are the audience. I outrank you."
- Before you REALLY listen to planars for the first time, be warned they can be more addictive than narcotics. ;)
- Your tastes and hearing were not acquired in a lesser school than that other guy's. Be willing to politely speak your mind no matter if you are a majority of one.
- Bose is bad, but not that much worse than a lot of lo- & mid-fi gear out there at a similar price point.
- Almost every mistake you're thinking of making has already been painfully made by someone earlier. Most folks on Audiogon are gently trying to keep you from their historical errors.
- It's reproduced music, nothing more or less. No one in audiophilia is going to die over it. So have a good time.
- All good music is about life; its passions, pleasures, tragedies, unrequited longings, joys, loves and pains. So be willing to grant that all musical genres have something to say worth listening to.
- Sometimes the artist DOES know what he's doing better than you do. As Mel Brooks once said, "I'm the performer, you are the audience. I outrank you."
- Before you REALLY listen to planars for the first time, be warned they can be more addictive than narcotics. ;)
- Your tastes and hearing were not acquired in a lesser school than that other guy's. Be willing to politely speak your mind no matter if you are a majority of one.
- Bose is bad, but not that much worse than a lot of lo- & mid-fi gear out there at a similar price point.
- Almost every mistake you're thinking of making has already been painfully made by someone earlier. Most folks on Audiogon are gently trying to keep you from their historical errors.
- It's reproduced music, nothing more or less. No one in audiophilia is going to die over it. So have a good time.