Lessons of youth

@tablejockey @twodogs112 I'm definitely not mentioning forums! He get's enough drama in his photography group. I haven't approached the subject again but he really enjoys shopping for vinyl. I'll help him the next time he asks for advice---in the meantime, I'm just letting him have fun.

Photography forums can be real ego trips for some… 

LOL, I visited one of those photography forums back in the film days when one could develop and print his own pictures. No one talked about what one did to take pictures only about things like the resolution of a 35mm lense on a 36 inch print or the supposed improvement in your work depending on whether it was a Leica, Canon, Nikon, etc. ( And I want you to know I used a Nikon F3 and a 1.2 50mm lens. I was, presumably, then a serious photographer! No? :-) The real fun was in just taking snap shots of interesting stuff and playing with the negs in a dark room for my own enjoyment. 

The real fun in audio is listening to the music! The rest is just filling empty time. 

My thinking is that in both photography and audio it starts with composition. Then how that which is compose gets presented.

Heck, sometime my thinking leads me astray.:-)

Photography and audio forms can have the nitpicky folks that like to brag and criticize others. They have the bullies too---so its definitely an ego trip for many, unfortunately. You can even spot them in the YouTube comments of audio reviewers.