Observation: Passion vs Obsession
Obsession = The joy is destroyed. You have sabotaged yourself by telling yourself "I have to get it". All you want are results, it serves an end. This conclusion is not corroborated with any evidence or analysis. It is a thought bubble conceived amongst the feeling neurons of the OPs brain who were sitting around making a bet. |
There seems to be a tendency to pit music and the Hi Fi hobby against one another. IMHO they are two entirely separate entities that obviously have a relationship to each other stronger or weaker depending on the person. Many musicians love music but could care less about Hi Fi. Hi Fi is about the sound and it does not have to be related to music. It could be related the spoken voice or various sound effects. Are not all hobbies obsessive? You are either into something or you are not. Everybody here is obsessed with Hi Fi or we would not be here. For some reason egos get attached to this hobby in a way you do not see with other hobbies. Most hobbyists enjoy helping each other and you do see a lot of that here but there are too many times when discussions get adversarial. I'm not sure but I think it is because of the variety of ways to interpret issues and the frustration some of us have with the mythology perpetrated by much of the industry on unsuspecting individuals not educated in a way that allows them to interpret claims correctly. Add this to the miss-understanding of the way our central nervous systems interpret hearing and you have a serious mess. |
I never heard of a strain gauge cartridge before. Had to look it up. Looks interesting. Long before SoundSmith’s Strain Gauge there was a Stax CP-X condenser cartridge in the 70’s. You can read J.Carr’s first comment here or this thread. There was a semiconductor / strain-gauge cart from Panasonic. Where have you been? |
