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In the Thread: Josh: My visit to Romy the Cat's Macondo
Post Subject: If the Back Cat is not there....Posted by Romy the Cat on: 1/31/2019
 martinshorn wrote:
I expected your disappointed resonance already. What you write completes the impression of the evening. I didn't go that far not to blow up the mini article unnecessarily. But be honest, you knew it all before. And so it happened... And I believe deep inside you remembered yourself back in the days when you were searching, the moment you responded to my "self-invitation". 

Josh, I have no disappointing in here of any kind with exception that I wish you do not post at the forums where the typical idiots dump dirt on me and I have no means to response. In fact I am very pleased with your visit as in my view Macondo demonstrate a very high performing integrity. You mentioned that you were surprised that Macondo sounded like a regular speaker, you were not moves, astonished, surprised, flabbergasted or experienced any other emotional shock that you typically expect to get from a playback. This is the highest compliment I even got for Macondo. This is the ultimate expressive transparency of playback, the transparency that you unfortunately do not understand yet. Macodno did present you with auditable surrogate that in your mind you recognize as a definition of “quality”. You did not understand the music was played and you experienced no invents for your soul. When you played your surrogate Macondo did not ornament it with your expected sonic goodness, so you pass through the Macondo presentation like a hot knife there the butter and hear only a boring regular speaker. There are very few speakers out there that can do it for you and Macondo is one of them.
Also, I think Macondo did spectacular job to suggest you do not look for “progressed” solution and to settle down for something more modest. I think it was a good education at good time for you and I do glad that you come to this realization.
 
 martinshorn wrote:
The 90% of wrong audio people  I feel you mean 90% of people have different objective than you. Which makes them wrong. Its not particularly modest buddhistic approach of thinking. Lets say two are talking how nice it is to drive out on the weekend for a road trip. Both agree but mean totally different things. Person A loves to drive technically coz his car is tuned to perfection. Second person meant he reaches destination to enjoy food and meet new people. I feel the same in the audio scene. You can either enjoy the music itself or enjoy the sound-bathing. Sound-bathing is by far more common between audiophiles, and listening to well recorded but meaningless music. Both is OK. If I enjoy to jiggle my senses with sound effects, no one gets hurt. Sound-bathing is totally fine. Only the abuse to justify consumptionism is bad about it. This is what many are guilty of. As for the actual music, honestly i came along the conclusion years ago that even the radio in my car is good enough to stop there. Thats because it transmits the emotion of music to the max extend I expect. Which leads to the next point 

I do not understand why you audio people are so constantly and so deep in PMS state of mind and why you perceive any statement of any person different to yours with you as some kind of need to self-validate yourself. It is not about right of wrong. What is the stupid concept it is! It is about matching of very specific audio endeavors to very specific musical objectives. Do you want to collaborate musical objectives? Fine. Do you want to collaborate what audio methodology you use to accomplish those objectives? Fine. That are all protocols where communication might takes place. If you want somebody to care that you have no understanding of own objectives and no understanding how your lost might be rendered by audio then it is fine as well, BUT you need to educate yourself at least to be able to ask yourself  proper questions.

 martinshorn wrote:
Only classical music is actually music. I am familiar with this thinking since childhood. My grandpa is a classic snob too. He is hobby pianist and Chopin obsessed since his teenage. He would always argue that what i listen to is more similar to African bush rituals than music. I mean we are both familiar in Germany and America with people of younger past calling jazz music barbarian....... The truth is, while my grandpa may felt superior about enjoying his complexity, he never had a chance to enjoy singing out loud with Howlin Wolf under the shower. Or with Jimi Hendrix in the car with open window. Neither he was dancing to techno with his friends in a secret industrial nightclub till 8 o'clock in the morning. Nor did he date many girls on the salsa dancing courses in that cuban bar downtown. I don't know which of us both had more life-fulfilment, but I sure do have assumptions.

It is perfectly fine, I have no need to convince you in anything. All that I am saying that I refuse to acknowledge existence of high-end audio in context of restaurant music. I think it is my constructional right, right?

 martinshorn wrote:
That his handing over to the point when I say that any level of quality above shitty car radio does actually already not matter to me. When I sing horribly bad to Curtis Mayfield or Charles Bradley in the car (and my Lady notices she doesn't have enough hands to cover her face and ears at the same time) the sound quality doesn't matter at all. This is when I truly listen. And I feel fulfilment of music. And I know that for long. It has little to do with audio sound bathing. Maybe you find this your way with understanding the real power of classical music and the individual personality and art of each interpretation. And it may be what you try to articulate. My way may lack complexity. But I feel i don't need to proof to anyone my grandeur. Instead i feel this genre has a lot of its own bohemian charm, which is composed after 5 beer and heartache, instead of 2 dices thrown on a matrix.  

The “bohemian charm”, is it a copyright name? Sound like a good name for iPhone App…

 martinshorn wrote:
Bitching about the Macondo in the enemy forum. I had little notice of you being banned nor does it have any relevance. It is simply the biggest platform reaching out to people. And that was the idea, it actually was a pure socialistic idea. I do not feel this forum here would be a platform to communicate this.  As you pointed: most people are the same. I find this shockingly often to be true in life. This is where I agree with 90%  A lot of people want to hear your system. People were asking how does it sound, was anyone ever there? I was googling it, no results. Many sure did. I wanted to let them know. And its better to share experience rather than keeping it secretly within a small snobby highend society. I was lucky to be nearby and you making time. Thanks! 

I do not feel that diyaudio.com is enemy forum. I consider that the forums is saturated with many boring people who do anything to accomplish anything and run by highly unsecure people but they are under no circumstances are enemy of mine.  Anyhow, if you are looking a pure socialistic idea and education of public is your objective then feel free to post at your diyaudio.com thread the link to my reply.

 martinshorn wrote:
If you create something, and say someone else's creation is shit, you actually also say yours is better. If you say everyone is shit, you imply the statement of your own superiority. You do say a lot how shitty others are. That certainly triggers huge curiosity around the globe. Look how the S2 prices exploded to unreasonable height. You and Kevin made a lot of fuss about it.  

Again: shit, superiority, better… Man, are you catapulted from another planet? Ah, I see from the diyaudio.com. Josh, you have very little understanding of what is going on around you, at least in audio. You cannot even repeat after others the things. I do not think that anybody many any fuss about anything, this is all your reception, quite inflated reception I need to say. I very openly made many a made many comments that S2 is not an perfect driver but something that I happens to settled because I made it to sound in the way how I needed. Kevin also did not make any fuss from S2 and he perfectly feel that if it was any other driver then he would make it to work too. For you audio is about things, the stupid dead things and you are looking for that the dead things will make you to feel moved. Well, it is what it is but you and I are in a different hobby.

 martinshorn wrote:
So I wanted to speak to people and address that. I really think it is a great thing to do. Though it may hurt your feelings. Sorry for that. See it as contribution to something bigger. It hopefully releases some tension of curious audio people how the mystical Macondo may sing. Like when you welcomed me. That relief was great gift! Happy to share it. 

Well, what hurt your feelings is that you do not use this opportunely for asking yourself if there is anything else in this hobby then just your itch to sit next to audio equipment. Over the hours we spent together you did not ask any questions that I found “enlightening”. Trust me, I have a lot of very interesting music, a lot of ways to demonstrate some very useful audio techniques and a very good capacity to teach audio language. You just have no interest and was numb and non-receptive, looking for a very different things. I think you missed a good opportunity for yourself.

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