Ive always been into music but got back into hifi about 4 years ago.
You spend a little while chasing a reasonable sound, most normal people stop at that point. Once you have a decent system you start to get picky and look for improvements, the thing that ive now totally accepted is that we are wasting a lot of time and money.
$1,000,000.00 worth of hifi cannot even come close to sounding like a live musical instrument, there is no system on the planet that even generates 1% of the emotion and musicality of a full blown orchestra or rock concert, sure it will be clear, detailed, and all the other bullshit terms the critics use but it does not feel like real music.
We are all kidding ourselves, before the usual suspects shoot be down in flames, i suggest that you goto to a few live concerts both rock and classical and reconnect with real music not the facsimile that hifi creates for you.
Dont get me wrong, im in favor of a good system that provides a flavour of real music inbetween real experiences but its importnat to realise the difference between a $10,000 system and a $500,000 is very small compared to the difference between a $500,000 system and a $50 concert ticket !!
Hifi is like porn, it gets you excited for the real thing but looking at the best porn is no substitute for the real thing.
Alan
Ive always been into music but got back into hifi about 4 years ago.
You spend a little while chasing a reasonable sound, most normal people stop at that point. Once you have a decent system you start to get picky and look for improvements, the thing that ive now totally accepted is that we are wasting a lot of time and money.
$1,000,000.00 worth of hifi cannot even come close to sounding like a live musical instrument, there is no system on the planet that even generates 1% of the emotion and musicality of a full blown orchestra or rock concert, sure it will be clear, detailed, and all the other bullshit terms the critics use but it does not feel like real music.
We are all kidding ourselves, before the usual suspects shoot be down in flames, i suggest that you goto to a few live concerts both rock and classical and reconnect with real music not the facsimile that hifi creates for you.
Dont get me wrong, im in favor of a good system that provides a flavour of real music inbetween real experiences but its importnat to realise the difference between a $10,000 system and a $500,000 is very small compared to the difference between a $500,000 system and a $50 concert ticket !!
Hifi is like porn, it gets you excited for the real thing but looking at the best porn is no substitute for the real thing.
Alan