How Do You Live The Audiophile Life

larry5729,

"A lot depends on where you live and the dealers there.  Reviews are misleading because it depends upon how much the manufacturer discounted the equipment to the writer.

Audio  shows are helpful.  However, how many years before we have one due to COVID.  Thank you China for not telling the world you had it for 2 1/2 months."


No, no!

I was hoping, just maybe September. 
You can't live the audiophile life without taking in the odd show or two.

No amount of money, understanding family members, or Dire Straits/Steely Dan/audiophile Jazz albums can make up for not attending shows.

Shows are the pulsing life blood of this hobby.

Maybe someone can post in-depth online guided show tours? How about Munich, Can-Jam, Axpona, Bristol, Montreal, Rocky Mountain etc on Netflix, Amazon.. anybody?

I'd pay to watch.

Lots of good advise.
 I agree with the guy who:
find a group of audiophiles. We have a group through meetup.com Lots of guys willing to share and help.
 Robert Harley's book is helpful to get the audio neurons going. So is Smith's.
 Check Craigslist for some good buys if want to explore a bit.
  But, probably the best advice is to ENJOY THE MUSIC- not the equipment so much, unless that's your goal. 
 If the music moves you, you are there...
Makes no sense if your moving, you can't be "there"...
See millercarbons video- he's moving and he's there. The Dude of audiophileness.

Visit living stereo in NYC....mike is a great guy! 

I'm not sure there is any secret to the "audiophile life" other than to create a sound that pleases you. Many people strive to reach what the music would sound like live but for me at least that is a difficult standard to reach. I have been to numerous concerts involving well established artists and I have never found a constant sound since all music environments are different, the sound equipment at each concert is always adjusted to the taste of the sound engineer and the instruments can themselves sound different based on the brand, age, speakers and amplifiers used, etc.  The result of all of this is that I don't really know what certain instruments SHOULD  sound like since there just isn't a constant sound for any instrument to emulate. Strive for what you imagine the sound would be like and what pleases you. Quite frankly, I believe some of our music systems could easily sound better than a live performance of that same material by that same artist given all of the vagaries mentioned above. I have walked out of concerts based on poor sound - there just isn't any reason to think that live sound is always perfect and recorded music necessarily always inferior.

I'm not sure there is any secret to the "audiophile life" other than to create a sound that pleases you. Many people strive to reach what the music would sound like live but for me at least that is a difficult standard to reach. I have been to numerous concerts involving well established artists and I have never found a constant sound since all music environments are different, the sound equipment at each concert is always adjusted to the taste of the sound engineer and the instruments can themselves sound different based on the brand, age, speakers and amplifiers used, etc. The result of all of this is that I don't really know what certain instruments SHOULD sound like since there just isn't a constant sound for any instrument to emulate. Strive for what you imagine the sound would be like and what pleases you. Quite frankly, I believe some of our music systems could easily sound better than a live performance of that same material by that same artist given all of the vagaries mentioned above. I have walked out of concerts based on poor sound - there just isn't any reason to think that live sound is always perfect and recorded music necessarily always inferior.