@dabel Wrote:
Movies, you say? These days I’m incapable of sitting still for one track …. And don’t even get me started on Cable, complete garbage. Adios like a rotten fart down wind!
I agree!
Mike
Who has the Sickness, the Phile or the Non-phile?
So often I find myself resenting the fact that there are only so many hours to listen to HiFi and I think of those that don't hold this resentment.
I used to think anyone who wasn't obsessive simply lacked exposure, but even though I have introduced many, I have discovered no takers.
At audiophile club meeting it seems to me that the attendees are mostly gear-heads and posers; they say "Ooo & Ahhhh" to anything presented and you can see 1 or 2, maybe 3 in the seats nonchalantly looking over in the direction of the ooo-ers and Ahhh-ers; those few get it. And before anyone is defensive because they know, lashes out that I'm this or that....I don't care. These are obviously my opinions and I'm looking for the opinions of others On The Question At Hand and not whether or not I am a deluded self important snob.
So, if it is not a lack of exposure, is it a lack of ability?
Surely we are all different, short, tall, smart, obtuse, near sighted, far sighted. Are the ears and or the brains of an audiophile just wired differently than others? Can non audiophiles just not hear what we hear?
Was it childhood exposure that caused this difference in wiring? My father had Altec Voice of the Theater horns and the accompanying gear. Was that it, being exposed to HIFi during brain development? My daughter gets it and boy was she pissed when I sold my VPI TT. I never got along with my father, but was he responsible for my affliction by introducing me to superior sound as an infant?
And, who are the sick ones, the philes or the non-philes?
TD
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Sometimes I'm convinced I'm an audiophile while other times I'm convinced I'm a music lover. However, what I always come back to is this: I could live without a nice system but living without music is unimaginable. |
+1 @uncledemp It is beyond me why (I’ll say most) musicians don’t care about the fidelity of recorded music they listen to. I’ve had musicians over to hear my rig and I get two reactions- 1) Dropped jaws at the realism and soundstage, or 2) “Oh yeah. Sounds real clear.” As a working musician myself, I can’t understand why every musician wouldn’t want a decent play back system. But I find most don’t. In fact, one noted jazz pianist colleague sort of dogs me about putting money into my AV rig. To the OP’s question, I was surrounded by music as a kid, reproduced on such lo-fi equipment it was “no-fi.” I didn’t hear “hi-fi” until I was in college. And that was it. I was hooked. But a lot (most?) are not moved by the experience. For me, listening to music is visceral. I can’t have it playing in the background. I stop and listen. (A problem working in stores with Muzak in my 20s.) I get “stuck” listening to music on my latest rig. One track leads to another and another until I’m dead tired at 2AM. IMO, people get it or they don’t. Neither is right or wrong, although those who don’t probably have more money in the bank than those who do. 😉 |
Music has a content of his own: melody,rythm,harmony, tonality, atonality, polytonality, Chromatism, harmonics.... Acoustic has a content of his own: Timbre acoustic translation, localization in space, immersiveness, dynamic, transients, direct/reflected/ diffuse waves, reverberation time, head and ears coupling to the speakers ,holographical distribution of sound sources etc
Two experiences completely different that meet one another in a music hall architecture...Not necessarily in an audio system for many musicians who are workers of their trade or too immersed in the live music playing experience to seat and be passively involved in buying costly gear... Their instrument matter way more... I am handicapped because i dont play any instrument, and sound speak to my eye and tell a story...but i am not musically trained... i listen Scriabin to feel a "buzz" as powerful as drug....I "see" a Bruckner symphony exactly as we see a movie... I can describe all chords as part of a complex story... It is why i add to music vocabulary and albums the vocabulary of acoustic to "clarify" my music experience as a sound seeing experience too... |
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