I love music and gear EQUALLY! .... and that's OK.
We love music as an art form.... but good gear is an expression of art too. Ask anyone who designs or builds it. I admire of the form, function, and beauty of good speakers and electronics. I like to interact with my equipment and my music. I like equalizers.... really good mastering equalizers..... because not all music that I like has been mastered equally. I tend not to like most "audiophile" music.
I very much dislike the trend of boxes with too few knobs... or worse, no knobs at all! Walk up to a stereo from the 70's-80s, and any idiot could operate it..... most new equipment today has a just a couple multi-function knobs or buttons.... you need the manual to get any sound out of it. I want to flog the industrial designers of today!!
I like to turn knobs that affect sound.... that's what I know about me.
.... and that's OK.
We love music as an art form.... but good gear is an expression of art too. Ask anyone who designs or builds it. I admire of the form, function, and beauty of good speakers and electronics. I like to interact with my equipment and my music. I like equalizers.... really good mastering equalizers..... because not all music that I like has been mastered equally. I tend not to like most "audiophile" music.
I very much dislike the trend of boxes with too few knobs... or worse, no knobs at all! Walk up to a stereo from the 70's-80s, and any idiot could operate it..... most new equipment today has a just a couple multi-function knobs or buttons.... you need the manual to get any sound out of it. I want to flog the industrial designers of today!!
I like to turn knobs that affect sound.... that's what I know about me.
.... and that's OK.