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In the Thread: Deficiency of sensible attitude in playback.
Post Subject: You are too radicalPosted by Antonio J. on: 10/16/2005
I mean that you put the most of the people hanging around public sites into the same bag. I think there are several different categories:
- The ones that have limited exposure to music and audio, they really don't care about music, and their exigencies about audio are also very low, but dare to advice purchases to other people. These are the most dangerous and the ones that should keep their mouths closed, but are the most active participants. For me these are the real Morons.
- People that doesn't care about music very much, or maybe they care but don't listen to it trying to "get it", but have wide experience with audio and actually have systems that sonically perform pretty well. If they offer comments about gear performance sometimes it's useful. Probably not to achieve any worth musical result, but to learn how certain devices can act sonically.
- Hobbists that love music, enjoy and understand it, and do know when a system makes some things right enough to enjoy a worthy performance, but don't have the knowledge, resources and skills to set up an "ultrasystem" and accept the tradeoffs they aren't able to overcome. These people may have a very different attitude and objectives than yours, so their systems probably won't have any interest for you, but the systems work for them and might work for other people with a lower exigency level. They aren't a problem for me, in fact some of these people offer interesting information since I can learn how their "musical awareness" depends on some sonic features and not others.
- People absolutely clueless about audio and music, but wishing to learn about both. These people might be the future of this hobby, and could change what highend is now and what could be, but when they meet people in the first category can be completely lost forever. The problem with these people is that most of them aren't willing to spend the time and effort that learning something worth takes. They rather take the fool advices they read, than going out to listen live music and different systems. Once you said these are the ignorants, but if no one takes care of them, they will be future morons or people running away from audio after spending a lot of money in bad systems that never made music.
I much believe that people like you, having the knowledge, experience, attitude and objectives well defined, could help others to define their own objectives and learn which is their own attitude. Sometimes people know what they want when they see it, but until that very moment they're clueless, and it doesn't mean they don't have interest or they're idiots, just that they don't know how things could be, nor the way to get those results using the means they have at hand.
To me the most difficult is not defining some goals for a musical result, I know pretty well how should I feel when listening to certain music, but correlating how some sonic performance provides you with that result. This is a try and error road, which sometimes is quite frustrating.
rgrds,
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