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2022 is almost here. Why are you here?

So why are you here?

No why are you on this forum?

Is it to discuss music?

Is it to discuss equipment and how to optimize your system?

Is it to meet new people and share ideas and well yes opinions?

I know those are the reasons I came to this forum. My favorite section is “What’s on your turntable tonight”. I also enjoy sharing my experiences in audio and well life so far.

Things I do not care for but come in an ecosystem like this are:

Posts that get hijacked.

People who politicize a post and everything is a right wing, or an alt left conspiracy.

Dealers that post to hawk their wares and services.

Boisterous bloviating blowhards’ that everything they do, own, and think is the best and you are schitt.

Personal attacks (I am guilty and will admit it)

I am right and you can not prove me wrong, so I am right. Tweaks are BS show me the DATA. Condemnation of a tweak or performance upgrade formulated on opinion, not science or trial and error.

There are a few only a few that are here just to be disrupters that pounce on posts by certain individuals looking for the opportunity to make them look the fool or extremist. So, it all goes back to the original question.

Why are you here?

I despise New Years resolutions and I am not going to make one here for 2022. I will say that if a post gets flushed down the political crapper I will move on. If the zoomer’s (thanks nonoise for that phrase) hit the thread, then the thread is dead to me. 

My goal in 2022 is to avoid conflict unless it is on the ice.

Love to hear form you all and Happy New Year!

 

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nonoise
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Bless me father, for I have sinned...

Being raised Catholic, I've learned, first hand, the hypocrisy of asking for forgiveness, being absolved for your sins, only to have a clean slate to go out and rack up the sins for next Saturday to confess away so you can have Communion on Sunday with a clean conscious.

I'm here to learn about audio, share it and enjoy it with others and have that sense of community. 

At times, it's necessary to do the role of parenting and call out the miscreants who mean to turn this site into their personal playground. This is a community site and no one's safe space to release their spite and hate filled thoughts that they've developed and nurtured on some other dark and silly place. 

Personally, I think the mods should have a tighter, broken windows policy. 

All the best,
Nonoise

 

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Noise I enjoyed that.

All the best.

 

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danager
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The easy answer is I love music but I’m not sure that’s really true. In my opinion music generally sucks. Amazon music has over 75 million tracks and if there were 10 thousand that I would listen to more than once I’d be really surprised. I’m audiophile because I love the performance. I first thought it would be the musician but that’s not true either. It’s really rare to enjoy a musician’s whole album much less the whole catalog. So it’s the performance I love. When I do come across that great performance I strive to become intimate with it as I can. How the voice trails off or those slightest changes in presentation. The details separate good from great and the equipment brings out the details.

I’m and audiophile because of intimacy. I become emotionally attached to the performance. I’m driven to get closer to better understand the intent and then revel in it. I’m also a techy so being here feeds both parts

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millercarbon
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I come for the virtue signaling. 

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thecarpathian
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An interesting expression, virtue signaling.

Coined by British writer James Bartholomew in 2015.

I wonder if it’s considered virtue signaling simply by coming up with the phrase virtue signaling.

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