Rerurn to Romy the Cat's Site

Paul Scearce wrote:

Is it just a matter of listening to everything you can get your hands on, or is there some more systematic approach that would work better?

do you remember how Mr. Herbert discovered the taste of Macondo’s bananas in the same book? I think it is a wonderful illustration about DIY movement.

Regarding the “systematic approach”… I would not suggest that there is any. Actually there is one but the methodical in this approach not the actions (listening to everything you can get your hands on) but the underling introvertial events among within those actions. Unquestionably listening to everything is very-very beneficial and very educational. However, it is imperative to learn what to do while we listen.

I biggest fault that the most of audiophiles (including 99.99% of DIYers) that they listen the audio that they build/buy/assemble. Instead of listening the performance of audio a listener should listen how that “performing sound” reflects within the listener inner-world. Those abilities to sense, to recognize, to acknowledge and to interpret the affect and influence of reproduce Sound (let call it music) are the principal-characteristic of an evolved listener. That ability is s single and the most important quality that converts a zombie-audiophile into a person with whom is possible to being to talk about audio. If a person “gets” this feeling then he can allow himself to listen and to do whatever he wants – he already is immune against “bad audio”. It is very similar to a pregnant woman during certain month of pregnancy: her taste, despite her preferences, is changing and she begins subconsciously reject the food that might hurt her fetes. The very same happen with an audio listener after he “get it”  - if he has a civilized inner-him then his natural reactions would reject wrongly reproduced Sound of the poor Music…

Interesting that form this moment the “audio potency” of a person does not described by what audio this person is accustomed to but it described explicitly by “what the person is”.

Rgs,
Romy the Cat

Rerurn to Romy the Cat's Site