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Nietzsche and Runaway Audio Consumption
nonoise: in China, and also in Japan, there is a serious market for the kind of hand-painted artistic copies you describe, to the point that particular "forgers" who are exceptionally skilled can sell "their" work for huge sums. The quotation mark... 
Nietzsche and Runaway Audio Consumption
twoleftears: very interesting suggestion. Benjamin was not in my mind when I wrote what I did, but I see your point. For those not familiar with the famous Benjamin essay, it's certainly relevant. I won't pretend to do justice to its subtlety and... 
Nietzsche and Runaway Audio Consumption
Thanks, hilde45. How do you happen to be reading Nietzsche? (BTW, when asked what a new composer should do, Richard Strauss answered: "Read Nietzsche!") And thanks, sns, for your insightful questions. They express my dilemma, which is what drew m... 
Nietzsche and Runaway Audio Consumption
As is often the case with aphoristic works, it can be helpful to look at the context of the given particular passage. In aphorism 302, Nietzsche writes: "The truly unendurable...are those who, possessing freedom of mind [freiheit der Gesinnung; "f... 
Nietzsche and Runaway Audio Consumption
Nietzsche and Wagner met in 1868 at a party in Basel, and talked all night about their common passion for Schopenhauer. They were close friends for the next several years; Nietzsche's first book, The Birth of Tragedy Out of the Spirt of Music, is ... 
Not manufactured any more.
Scientific Fidelity Tesla  
Dang it, I'm Deaf....
Russ—so sorry to read this. But don't lose hope. As the miraculous homeopathic cure sandthemall describes shows, strange things can happen. Three years ago, I was flying home from Prague on a plane with a shrieking infant right behind me. But tho... 
Audiophile virtues
Goethe: "...it is possible to say that every attentive glance which we cast on the world is an act of thoerizing.... Theorizing is inherent in all human experience, and the highest intellectual achievement...would be to comprehend that everything ... 
Audiophile virtues
rvpiano: Bravo! Still...do you know the several Orpheus Chamber Orchestra performances of selected Haydn Symphonies? IMO, the best performances of those works on record, and superlative SQ as well. I wish they'd done more of them (to my knowledge,... 
Ridiculous assertions that someone is being ripped off or conned
hce1: both excellent points. Insulting comments regarding someone else's expressed opinion are not constructive, and just plain rude. If I've ever been guilty of that, I apologize. And secondly, again yes: science begins with hypotheses to explain... 
Herbie’s Super Black Holes
Oops! Guess I was punked. The closing reference to "St. Herbert" and "weeping about all the shallow empty years..." should have tipped me off. So these "Black Holes" are snake oil, in your opinion?  
Herbie’s Super Black Holes
Paul, I would have sent you a PM, but couldn't find a way to do that. Would you mind explaining how this thing works? Not the "science," Herbie's site attempts to explain that. But: how do you apply it to the CD? Does it get applied to both sides... 
Ridiculous assertions that someone is being ripped off or conned
This discussion overlaps with the many about "objective" vs. "subjective" criteria, and is at the heart of the very existence of this forum, this website, and magazines that review equipment. "The bottom line" is the bottom line: most good stereo ... 
Two surprising things I found that improved my imaging and staging...
baylinor hit the spot. And I'll second the recommendation of Jim Smith's book. In any case, it is certainly true that room acoustics are too often an overlooked element in one's system, every bit as important as any component—and "free" to experim... 
That Other Audiophile Website
FWIW, I recently discovered a similar problem with THIS site. Some time ago (February 2020), I purchased a pair of Revel speakers on Audiogon from a seller with "100% positive feedback." After my purchase had cleared, the seller informed me he did...