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In the Forum: Playback Listening
In the Thread: Music in the Sound: a moving target

Post Subject: Like, Absolute Idealism and Stuff...Posted by Paul S on: 6/21/2009

Gordon, I did not respond to you with the idea that you were specifically addressing me, but only out of an interest in what you are saying. But now I wonder if I understand correctly that you think your emotions are ultimately the litmus for your hi-fi?

I also enjoy the per-event emotional kaleidoscope, but this has not been something I have been able to organize to put it to use to develop my hi-fi system.

Still, I think that one may develop some viable references over time, with respect to both Music and hi-fi, as well as ideas about how to get dynamic Music from hi-fi. In this case, I still think that Background is of great practical importance, and I think that the Great Mystery of this Background is that it somehow both informs and largely comprises one's sense and aesthetics with respect to both Art and any vehicle thereof or thereto.

Of course we will see and hear no more than we are prepared to, regardless of any means we might choose or stumble upon, and this will condition in turn any event we might experience.

That today's Epiphany might be tomorrow's ho-hum is something that still puzzles me after more than 45 years messing around with this stuff, and it certainly keeps it interesting, at least.

None the less, as the years have piled up I find I have settled down considerably with respect to my approach to hi-fi, even as I seem to get more and more from Music.

In this way, the Music/hi-fi thing strikes me as a sort of Language, in which it is possible to grow, not merely by an acretion of facts or hardware (signs) but through the expansion of awareness via Art, through Dialog, with risk and loss ever part of the Process.

Not to start with the Hegel...

Best regards,
Paul S

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