hilde45
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| Nietzsche and Runaway Audio Consumption @snilf @snilf Good point about aphoristic works, and I took a risk, but I thought the quotation made enough internal sense for it to be related without trying to "size up" Nietzsche, which many know is either impossible or a lifelong occupation. ... | |
| Nietzsche and Runaway Audio Consumption Well said @snilf !!! | |
| Should We Prioritize Detail In Our Assessment Of Audio Quality? Everyone know what detail means. You can look it up in the dictionary. If that was true, we'd all know that, and there would not be a discussion happening here. So, no. Dictionaries report how words are used. People use the same word in differ... | |
| Nietzsche and Runaway Audio Consumption Nietzsche was not depressed. He didn’t have blinders on but that’s different. | |
| Nietzsche and Runaway Audio Consumption @artemus_5 My take on his comment about only spirit being able to have possessions is the same reason we don't want children to have opiates. They can take them but then the drugs would take them over. In this case, only someone with mastery over... | |
| Should We Prioritize Detail In Our Assessment Of Audio Quality? +1 to @millercarbon @jjss49 and others. QUESTION: It would seem that "detail" would vary with what one wants to pay close attention to, no? Or is listening to the pace or the bass or something not in the upper mids and treble not considered 'deta... | |
| Nietzsche and Runaway Audio Consumption I take "spirit" to mean someone who defines their own path, has their own intentions, and is not in the grip of others' sway. A "sense of what they are about" or "genuine character" might be a good way of seeing his point. We are either creators o... | |
| Nietzsche and Runaway Audio Consumption @ebm Everyday we learn a bit more about what we don't know. Ain't that a hoot? | |
| How do you get Happy as an Audiophile? Answer to OP question: Remember that music is a goal but so is sound and it's ok to like both. Don't feel guilty about wanting to tweak, change, play with things if this done in the spirit of experiment and tinkering. Worry when it becomes a qu... | |
| Why Are People So Concerned About How Others Spend Their Money? @cd318 However, what I do find disagreeable is the commonly propagated notion that spending more money always brings sonic improvements. This seems exactly correct. For me, the value in this forum is the discussion of *criteria* for sonic exc... | |
| Spatial X5 speakers So weird that 20 wpc is not enough for a 97db speaker. I know there are other factors, but this seems like the question of whether a volkswagen beetle can tow a tricycle. Why wouldn't it be able to do that? | |
| Advice regarding streaming please. +1 @djones51 At a certain point, this hobby stops being orgiastic buying and becomes something like work, but the fun work one puts into a puzzle or project. If one is not prepared to do that work, then an endless cycle of buying, selling, and po... | |
| Why Are People So Concerned About How Others Spend Their Money? @sandthemall I've never been concerned about what/how other people do...none of my business. As long as they're not harming themselves/others. Well said. A surprising amount of what we do harms others. That's the tricky bit. | |
| Default standard for speaker "sensitivity" measurement listings? Anechoic? In-room? Other? This is the problem with specs: many many ways to affect results that make them not comparable to anyone else's measurements. It's like saying your table is "brown", it's not an absolute and is not translatable - there are 1,000's of differen... | |
| Spatial X5 speakers @jaymark One opinion I'd love to hear from you -- whenever you feel experienced enough to proffer it -- is this: Does the Spatial need softer tube amps to sound good (not harsh, even tonality, etc.) or can a variety of non-tube amps also make it s... |