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In the Forum: Playback Listening
In the Thread: Audio critique – open your mind!
Post Subject: Re: you need to lose some weightPosted by guy sergeant on: 6/24/2006
I think I get what you are saying. There have been many occasions where I've bitten my tongue when presented with someone's precious and expensive cacophony of noise. I often take a small pleasure in telling them that it's either incredible or unbelievable and let them take from that the meaning they want to. I haven't been dishonest and they are happy. People do invest a part of themselves in the choices they make about their clothes, their homes, their cars & their audio sytems. They shouldn't maybe but often they feel it's what defines them as a person.
Perhaps I should have been more honest with my views. However, we only live for 70-80 years. Some of us find that time more bearable if we don't antagonise everyone we meet. We use a carefully evolved technique. It's called politeness. I wouldn't tell my mother if I thought she was a little overweight. I wouldn't say 'you're fat, go on a diet' I'd tell her how well she was looking.
Perhaps audio hasn't evolved as far as it could have if everyone had been ruthlessly honest to everyone else, and I think it's healthy if there are a few very direct people around. But if everyone was like that (and perhaps less tolerant than they could be) we might all have killed each other by now and there would be little left in the way of civilisation to give birth to music and art etc.Rerurn to Romy the Cat's Site