The two stages of audiophilia

good post.
Fun reading, no hating. 
Stage 1 is personal. 
Stage 2 is universal.  

Shouldnt need a Stage 3

I am in the same boat as Audioguy. Class A + dual concentric.

But here is my analogy as why the search can never truly end.

You just had the best sex in your life. Absolutely amazing.
The next day a different attractive naked form crosses your vision.

Wha’cha gonna do!!

Fun post .... thanks ....

But if i could add to your humoristic analogy a correction:

Sex= technical performance of an audio system
Love= musical audiophile subtle impressions quality

Then if someone look only for sex or new hyped technical without end upgrade something is flawed in his kingdom so to speak...

Because sex with a love one cannot be compared to sex with "one thousand and one" different women whom you dont love... Like the sultan i prefer Scheherazade... 😊


In my audio journey i have settled with the woman and audio system with whom i love the sex and the music the most and i decide to rightfully embed in all their working dimensions the system and the woman with many homemade devices to make the system and the woman sing...

It cost way less than changing  of woman each month and upgrading components  without end....


With the woman and the audio system, one the choice of each one is settled, the KEY were the right embeddings devices "controls" so to speak.....But dont say that to my wife please....
😁😊

@mahgister,

The next time I fall out with my wife perhaps I could try using the line, "It’s ok darling, things will be alright once you’ve been embedded."

Perhaps not.

Although come to think of it, things do usually resolve themselves that way.

But the problem is I’m not too sure just who’s doing the embedding or who’s getting embedded.


Cue Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - Brilliant Disguise

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uoEUwljiHv4

All of audio is the stage, and we are merely players.

But the problem is I’m not too sure just who’s doing the embedding or who’s getting embedded.

You are totally right...

who embed who?

My wife or me or the two of us embed each other ?

Like in audio we embed our system ( this is acoustic) which at the end embed us with it ( this is psycho-acoustic)...

After all audiophile listenings experiments and sex and love neither would be and thanks God! neither could be purely "technical" nor purely "objective"....

All of audio is the stage, and we are merely players.

 Well said...