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In the Thread: What is it all about? Destination vs ceremony.
Post Subject: Parallel explanationPosted by noviygera on: 8/12/2019
This is an interesting topic and a sensitive matter. For me it goes in a different direction than most audiophile discussions of sound quality and how it related to the audio hobby. The ridiculousness of the high end audio hobby becomes evident when you try to explain it to a normal, intelligent human being. They can tell when sound is better but what's the difference if the sound is better? It is ridiculous when you look at it from the traditional audio perspective of approaching the sound of "live". I see it differently. The goal is to surpass "live" and that is why it's an interesting journey.
This is my theory on the matter of our hobby of audio. Deep down, our audio hobby has nothing to do with realistic sound OR music. It is convenied to fall back on that excuse because nomal, common people listen to music and have material gratifications of achiving convenient status mark in their life. Actual music can be experienced very well "live" or on any device that plays sound. I think "our" search of perfection is similar to a perfume maker search of a scent that is extraordinary. It has no connection with reality and on the contrary the whole idea is to exceed the reality and to transced the base line of reality. Like an artist (although I hesitate to call myself an artist) who expresses himself through reproduction of reality thus altered reality, it is possible to go beyong reality.
So we are artists and perfume makers in a way. We just happened to come across audio devices that are our tools. And some of use can use them smartly to get our idea across.
As far as describing the audio hobby to normal people I prefer the following explanation: The idea is to get high without LSD.
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