tylermunns
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| Is the idea of audiophile listening a dying concept as boomers die off? It’s one thing if one is alone and laziness wins out and they go, “aw, hell, I want to hear this song right now, screw it” and then plays it through their cell phone speaker. Treating a cell phone speaker this way in public, to my mind and ears, b... | |
| Can you tell the difference between a $200 and a $200,000 guitar? An interesting exercise would be presenting demos of several like things without providing the retail value of each version. Hard to not introduce bias when telling the viewer the $ of each one. | |
| When Was The Audio Golden Age? @mahler123 Exactly. We went into a house and saw proper sound systems. That’s just what people did. Not common anymore. Some cute little toy perched next to bric-a-brac on a shelf. That’s the “system.” | |
| When Was The Audio Golden Age? The boom-box Radio Raheem carried around sounds better than the typical stuff today. It’s dishonest to frame this as though it’s ‘20s-‘60s vs. today, as though the ‘70s-‘90s never existed. | |
| When Was The Audio Golden Age? I’ll tell ya what; it sure as crap ain’t today. When a depressingly high number of people think they’re “listening to music” on a f**king cell phone speaker the size of an M&M, or think, “ok, now I’m really listening to music when I stream dat... | |
| Can you tell the difference between a $200 and a $200,000 guitar? “Just play the guitar you like” is my take on it. The benefit-coat ratio of a multi-$k purchase for a guitar is always debatable, but, again, it’s about playing the guitar you like as long as such a purchase doesn’t completely torpedo your finan... | |
| Does Every Track Sound Great on Your System? In my experience, highly resolving gear is made to make top-notch recordings and top-notch masterings shine. The enormous amount of great music that’s been recorded over the last century devoid of those particular qualities? It may (I emphasize th... | |
| Market Stabilization? Obviously outlandish, obviously super-dumb and clearly trolling posts are easy to ignore…you just…don’t engage them. This type of media (whether so-called ‘news’ media, podcasts, social media posts, everything) is undertaken with a dirt-simple p... | |
| Record Store Day 2024? Not my cup of tea. It’s not a celebration of vinyl or music. It’s record labels trying to fleece buyers. It’s probably 50/50 (perhaps a generous estimate) that the pressings sound any good. Usually it’s a trumped-up exploitation of the idea of “ex... | |
| Anyone listen to entire albums? I will second the reissues with added tracks. It’s terrible. So many people being exposed to albums in ways entirely different from what the artist intended upon release. They don’t know any better. They just went to a steaming service, clicked ... | |
| Audiophilism is a hobby @engineears Well said. I think a pitfall of being so attentive to the fidelity of the playback is some folks cut out of their life significant swaths of music because the recordings don’t sound like whatever some audiophile magazine told them in ... | |
| Audiophilism is a hobby Write “audiophilia nervosa” (or ‘audio nervosa’ or ‘audiophile nervosa’) into a Google search engine and then press, “search.” I don’t know how one can’t see the clear difference between these two things: a) person listens to music they like b)... | |
| Are You a Swifty? @mahgister I hear what you’re saying but it is virtually impossible to “prove” one work of art is “better” than another. I could sit here and drone on and on why a particular piece of music is “good,” with all the academic, musicological, music-... | |
| REAL MUSIC VS. SHOW MUSIC PERFORMANCE AT AUDIO SHOWS. PRESENTATION V. PERFORMANCE? WHY? It’s business. Good business knows what the customer wants and does their best to deliver it. Right or wrong, most audiophiles want to hear a certain kind of music. It sure as hell ain’t my music, but I wouldn’t expect such to be played at an au... | |
| Are You a Swifty? The thread is called, “Are You a Swifty?” The people posting here are addressing the question. Some say, “yea” some say “nay,” some say, “meh,” etc. etc. No transgression occurs, no evidence of some sort of personal flaw is shown when a com... |