It happened, really, because I was comparing the Exposure 2010S combo to the Musical Fidelity A3.5 combo. I found myself struggling with some audio-related things. In a blog entry titled, The Pursuit of Hi-Fi Happyness, I wondered:
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To appreciate an unreal thing based on a certain level of realism that this unreal thing approaches is superbly ass-backwards. But, in hi-fi, we do this all the time. We say, "It sounds so real!"
Who are we shitting? It doesn't sound real. It sounds really cool, it sounds really fake. It sounds so fake, in fact, we almost think it's in the room with us.
Or am I wrong? Am I missing something, confusing things? This is all kind of fascinating to me, and silly, and troubling.
Is it possible to listen to music and listen to the hi-fi? Or are they two entirely different activities, incomparable and incompatible? Right now, for me, they seem to have nothing in common, whatsoever.
Last week, I was wonderfully surprised to find in his January 2004 "Listening," under a section titled, The pursuit of unhappiness," Art Dudley write:
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I say that real music and hi-fi have nothing to do with one another. They are different experiences. Wishing they weren't different is understandable and perhaps even noble, but pointless. Wishing won't make it so.
It won't make it so because, no matter what "philosophy" informs your hi-fi system, that system will do what you want it to do with only a relatively small percentage of the recordings in your collection
It happened, really, because I was comparing the Exposure 2010S combo to the Musical Fidelity A3.5 combo. I found myself struggling with some audio-related things. In a blog entry titled, The Pursuit of Hi-Fi Happyness, I wondered:
Last week, I was wonderfully surprised to find in his January 2004 "Listening," under a section titled, The pursuit of unhappiness," Art Dudley write: