Is live reproduction the goal of audio?

I always wonder how I got this brown nose....

I always wonder how I got this brown nose....

Yeah, I had to get out my hip-waders a while ago.

What's all this crap about par-boiled steaks and race car mechanics. Y'er loosing me C5150. Practicioners of the high-art of the kingdom of audiophiledom?! Do I get a gold, jewel-encrusted ring with the seal of the brotherhood emblazoned atop? I tell you, the more I've gotten that far obsessed in this hobby, the more I pity those who actually stay there - at least for me, it takes me so far away from the actual music itself which was the whole reason I got into it in the first place. I suppose there is enjoyment to be had at the level of the gear and tweaking, but for me that pales in comparison to the music. Perhaps for others it is of equal or greater enjoyment. I'd just like to get it out of the way and get on with the music. Still, I have a very low tolerance for mediocrity. I guess I try to keep the former in balance, but every once in a while I notice myself getting obsessed with the minutia and not enjoying the music and I have to go take a cold shower and flog myself with a barbed wire whip, then roll around in rock-salt. Works for me. Perhaps I should follow that all up by getting aged fillet mignon and boiling it till it's grey.

Marco

Hey now that i got the pebble in between my teeth....do you want it back

I got into it for the music as well . Then ,as any guy here I started to fool around and tweak and tune and there it was....how to fill your room with so much hollographic music and sound that it just blew my mind.

I used to own a 100k plus system but sold it here on the Gon. You know set up wth all the bells and whistles ,a al hi-fi . Now that I fell into another way of presenting a better sonic "whole" . Nothing to do wih plug and play.

I guess if you own a stereo you qualify ,but why dump on bose then?

I guess if you own a stereo you qualify ,but why dump on bose then?

Touche! I dump on Bose because I know that for the same amount of money you can have a much more rewarding investment. But that's just my opinion, as is everything I'm putting out here. I am not under the illusion that my opinion should be applicable to everyone. Fact is there's nothing really wrong with Bose that a sledgehammer and a dumpster wouldn't fix. Oh damn, there I go again. I didn't learn the lesson you were teaching. Back in the early 80's when I popped my audiophile cherry I had a good friend with a pair of Bose 901's hanging in his Brooklyn loft. Powered, no doubt, by some mass-market SS system. It sure filled the loft with sound, but had no redeaming qualities I can recall other than being capable of playing loudly. Around the same time I was introduced to some modest systems that were probably less expensive than the Bose rig, yet were very memorable. Some I recall to this day with great fondness. I'd like to send them cards and flowers every year, but I've lost their addresses.

On the other hand, my neighbor was showing off an airplane to me that he's building in his workshop . While I was there he had a little boombox thing playing some music. For a garage boombox it didn't sound too bad. Beter than you average boombox. It was a Bose Wave radio. Go figure.

Marco

There are a lot of different type of sledge hammers and in my little town there are three companies who can provide dumpsters for bose speakers.
Are there any sledge hammers that are better than the others, or is it all height and weight dependant? What color dumpster works best for bose speakers, or is that model dependant?
If one speaker is a bigger piece of crap does it require a larger dumpster even though the speaker dimensions are not any larger than those of another speaker?
The advice I get on Audiogon is so helpful in so many aspects of my life.