Audiophilia: Is it the pursuit of audio excellence or just a desire to tinker.
So my wife made this observation after I spent a couple hours fiddle farting with cables, connections and speaker placements. She said is this hobby/obsession your desire for audio excellence, or just you like tinkering with stuff, tweaking your system and feeding your OCD?
She said you try this and try that and guess what it all sound the same to me. She really knows me and my OCD.
Enjoy your Sunday.
It's both and something else too. It's a lot of fun to tinker, learn, design, and grow in the hobby. Add to that the love of music faithfully reproduced and !Viola! A payoff for your hard work. Most HiFi guys are aesthetics- lovers of beauty, symmetry and perfection. Some call this snooty or uppity but the pursuit of excellence demands dismissal of the imperfect. This can be offensive to the folks who's patron saint is Mediocrities.
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There is three basic areas about which we can experiment ... Tinkering is a more uninformed play than systematic experiments ...We must study a bit here not just play... Electrical , mechanical and acoustical are the three areas to adress for any system at any price ... When all we can do in this areas is finished our system has reach his potential ; before that our system nevermind the cost would not be able to reach his potential best S.Q. No singular upgrade will replace the necessary experiments to embed rightfully the components not even the upgrades of all components can do the job by purchasing his way to the top S.Q. 😊 Money cannot replace studies and experiments ... Sorry ... No measuring tools can magically do the job ... Even the best designed digital tool ever in my opinion , the DSP based BACCH filters cannot replace electrical, mechanical and acoustical embeddings ...And my only future upgrade will be the BACCH filters ...
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@stuartk thanks. |
Changing a cartridge for a way costlier one is not "tinkering" nor it is an embedding control device it is an upgrade of component ...😁 Tinkering is often like walking with your hand without seeing ... We must learn how to control the main three working dimensions of a system... And a search for excellence in sound which never end is not a search for excellence in sound but in most case a mental disease or an obsession ...Any study and set of experiments in acoustic end somewhere ...Any speakers building end somewhere etc ... I listen music now without being frustrated ...I guess i am no more an "audiophile" or perhaps i am an informed one ...😉
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