Happy Scale


I found this reply interesting on the "Happy Scale" of our present systems vs. One's of the past.

Great topic to contemplate. In the mid 80's My first stereo at 23 was pretty good. 400 watts of SAE power,  Technics SBE 200 speakers, Thorens TD 124 TT. All vinyl. For me and my friends, it was unbeleiveable how good it sounded. Fast forward 30 years.... I now own a $40,000 Audio Note system. It may "technically" sound better but it doesn't make me any happier on MY happy Scale. My friends don't talk about my present system but they sure talked about my system 30 years ago. I was the guy with the stereo. It felt good.

Rich or poor keep searching to achieve those 10/10 happy scale moments. Happy is just plain happy. Period. It's what we live for.

Can anyone add to the mix...during these isolated times?

Cheers
ishkabibil
I think we are straying .....

Present rigs vs.  An older setup is what I am referring to.
You never know how threads are going to turn out these days. 🤗

My mother. She always told me to smile and put on a happy face. 😀 She said I was put here to spread joy and laughter.

It’s funny. When I was a little boy and told people I was gonna be a comedian, everyone laughed at me. Well, noone’s laughing now.

"Now that IS a good one!!!"
The only small imperfection is that he repeats it weekly.
ishkabibil

Also worth remembering that to go from nothing to your first system was an incomparably larger step to go from your 400 watts Thorens/ Technics system to your current Audio Note system.

I'm not suggesting that your current system isn't better, reason suggests it must be, but nothing, no system on earth, will ever make that same qualitative leap for you ever again as your first system did.

It's pretty well the same way for me when I watched a colour TV for the first time in the 1970s after years of watching only black and white.

Unforgettable and unrepeatable.

CRT to LCD to LED to OLED are all comparitvely small steps now but if I had seen a current 65 inch OLED back in 1974....

I guess that's also why cinema used to be so magical also in those days. These might be 'the days of miracle and wonder' but let's not forget that anyone growing up since the 1950s will be a lot more jaded now than their predecessors would have been.

It has to take something quite extraordinary to make us pause nowadays, but right now it's best not to go there.