@tomcy6 No, pointing out the obvious fact that there are many audiophiles who play music and, instead of just enjoying the music, sit there and over-analyze fidelity-related minutiae, wherein dismay at disappointing fidelity is often the experience (just pursuing this very thread and hearing people say they won’t even listen to music, no matter how good, unless it has ‘good sound,’ will indicate this), is not a “straw man argument.”
For one, it wasn’t an argument, it was a clarification of the issue; a couple posters said they didn’t understand why for many there was a conflict between enjoying music and striving for maximized fidelity, so I provided the clarification as best I could.
For two, again, you can look on this very site and find several people dismissing outright God knows how much great music because “the sound is bad.”
Perhaps you and others spent x-amount of time (months? years? decades?) maximizing your system’s fidelity, and at no point did you find yourself analyzing the fidelity instead of just enjoying the music (which is sort of impossible - a non-audiophile just listens to music…an audiophile, by nature, must divorce themselves from sheer enjoyment of the music itself to meticulously and diligently analyze the sound), then, well, hats off to you.
Any way you slice it, there is no “straw man” here.
Audiophilism is a hobby
This post grew out of another discussion on music vs. sound. According to a poll taken in that discussion, it is clear most A’goners claim they listen to their rigs primarily for the music. Although I don’t doubt the truth of that, I maintain that much of the listening is as a hobby, with music being a very important component. I’m not saying we can’t be profoundly moved by the music but rather that a lot of our enjoyment comes from the sheer sound emitted from our speakers. Great music is of course a vital part of the experience, but with all the manipulations we do with our systems, we are fascinated by the idea of sound in itself as a hobby.
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I have never met anyone who listens like that nor have I read posts by those poor people. If you can provide links to posts by all the Audiophile Billies around here I'll be happy to read them and maybe learn something. I guess I just don't read those threads.
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@tomcy6 i fit that description to a large degree. On the other hand I am not really an audiophile. |
Look for half of the people who upgrade in a race they call their hobby with no acoustics experience about what is transient or what is really a timbre acoustic parameters... I was one unsatisfied and i did not know what to do at all nor where to begin.... Before i studied and experimented with acoustics after my retirement because i had time and the dedicated room to use... Billy cannot know he is ignorant acoustically he felt it as unsatisfaction and cannnot do anything save buying to solve his uncomfort... To solve a problem you must be able to pose it conceptually no ? My best from one past Billy .... Now mahgister ... 😉
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