keegiam
Responses from keegiam
| what is it in audio that you dislike most? Not really a dislike - more of a frustration:The extreme expense and added complications of reproducing the bottom octave. | |
| The term "High End" needs to die. Long live Hi-Fidelity! @viridian: "Its a travesty!"That one really did make me laugh out loud. | |
| The term "High End" needs to die. Long live Hi-Fidelity! Alright, here's my "get off my lawn" gripe today. Day after day, post after post, I see rampant misuse of "its" and "it's."Not only here, but in e-mails, on the web, in the newspaper.It's really easy. "it's" = "it is." "its" is the possessive f... | |
| What’s really hurting the audio hobby? @onhwy61 You're mistaking observations of generational trends for denigration.The fact that younger generations don't hear music performed by (acoustic) instruments as much as we did decades ago is just that - fact. How many youth regularly hear ... | |
| What’s really hurting the audio hobby? Another factor is that high end is not mobile. A prerequisite to assembling such a system is putting down roots - even if it's just an apartment. In my youth, there were only 2 audio goals: great home and car systems. I wanted both, so I made t... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? What's on my turntable? Dust! Still need to pack up my SOTA and send it back for a new motor/controller, and I'm not digging the box out of the attic until this heat wave passes.CD's today:Santana - AbraxasLarry Coryell - European ImpressionsCha... | |
| What’s really hurting the audio hobby? Some of the posts are straying kinda far from the topic, which isn't so much about changing tastes in music. It's about loss of interest in high fidelity recording and playback (e.g., the "audio hobby"). | |
| What’s really hurting the audio hobby? I'll take a 2nd shot and keep it brief.Most younger folks don't seem to attend the type of live music performances that made most of us fall in love with the sounds we were hearing (whether acoustic or small-setting amped).Too many are not even aw... | |
| What’s really hurting the audio hobby? Some dealers may be a problem, but I think it's primarily decreasing demand for quality audio systems. My interest was NOT born in dealerships (as you suggest), but from music lessons and playing in orchestras starting at age 8. When I started p... | |
| what is more important ? Speakers. Period. | |
| Speaker Recommendations budget of <6k new or used Check out the recent (and popular) speaker recommendation thread begun by @smodtactical. It's arranged according to list price for a new pair (not used).Just be aware that, so far, it has only taken one recommendation for a speaker to be listed i... | |
| Speaker recommendation thread (Organised by tiers of price) @Smod:The list is growing rapidly as predicted by a few posters. As it does its value may be waning, since if it only takes one mention to make the list.Perhaps there should be a similar list that includes only those speakers mentioned (or confir... | |
| Our Responsibility Kosst_Amojan: <<Your post is a text book example of the "leave people alone in their own opinions and never challenge them" thinking>>Not sure how you inferred this from my post. I neither said nor think that. You simply seem much m... | |
| Our Responsibility << That's how I cultivate the next generation. >> @kosst_amojanYour "cultivation" sounds a lot like proselytism. Most people react negatively to that kind of attitude, which is understandable. I suggest some introspection on your mo... | |
| Anyone else gotten SPAM pop ups the last couple of days? My only pop-up experience was with Audio Research - obviously not typical spam. |