Someone had my post removed for saying "nipple" and I can't stop laughing.I hear ya. Some here really give me pause.
What Audio Religion have you converted others to successfully?
We all have certain audio proclivities, some we expose to the world, some we hide even from our priests and psychotherapists. We believe, strongly, there's a certain way to achieve magic. A state of enlightenment which raises our awareness almost instantly to resonate with the sacred muses, and may actually transcend music and audio to reach the divine (as opposed to Divine).
In most cases, we share something with a loved one and they're like "um, ok, are still on for fishing this weekend?" but rarely, ever so rarely, the go home, they don't talk to their spouses, their children think there is something wrong, and they call you late at night. "You know that thing you did, with the cables and the vinyl and stuff? How can I do that too? Does my spouse need to know? Can I keep things at your place?"
So, my fellow audiophiles, what proclivities do you find yourself championing, and what do you think is an easy vs. a hard sell? Vinyl? Room acoustics? Rubbing Portuguese safflower oil on your cables before listening?
In most cases, we share something with a loved one and they're like "um, ok, are still on for fishing this weekend?" but rarely, ever so rarely, the go home, they don't talk to their spouses, their children think there is something wrong, and they call you late at night. "You know that thing you did, with the cables and the vinyl and stuff? How can I do that too? Does my spouse need to know? Can I keep things at your place?"
So, my fellow audiophiles, what proclivities do you find yourself championing, and what do you think is an easy vs. a hard sell? Vinyl? Room acoustics? Rubbing Portuguese safflower oil on your cables before listening?
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OK, so here is in fact a textbook example of a "Freudian slip." World renown attorney Lin Wood filed a document with the court in which she declares her statements are made "under plenty of perjury." https://twitter.com/steve_vladeck/status/1340295356190502912
So, we meet both criteria. :) |
I’m going to answer your question seriously--because it seems like a serious question, well-posed. All I try to convey to others whenever discussing audio gear & music reproduction is my preference for gear that sounds as much as possible like music performed live in a real performance space. The example I usually use is the symphony orchestra in a large hall with good acoustics: the music comes at the listener as a series of large wavefronts. One doesn’t hear bass vs midrange vs treble, but instead, large waves of sound launched from the stage. IRL music, the upper mids & lower treble are never edgy; the treble sounds only as "airy" as the dimensions of the hall allows; bass hits the diaphragm, being felt as well as heard; and dynamics are epic & natural. Only by comparing audio reproduction to the real thing can one rise above the obsession with gear voiced this or that particular way. This means letting go of things like enhanced/edgy transients; spotlighted & sculpted image placement in the soundstage; boomy, hyped bass, and other audio familiar tropes. To paraphrase Duke Ellington: if it sounds like real music, it is good audio. |
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