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Who has the Sickness, the Phile or the Non-phile?

So often I find myself resenting the fact that there are only so many hours to listen to HiFi and I think of those that don't hold this resentment.

I used to think anyone who wasn't obsessive simply lacked exposure, but even though I have introduced many, I have discovered no takers.

At audiophile club meeting it seems to me that the attendees are mostly gear-heads and posers; they say "Ooo & Ahhhh" to anything presented and you can see 1 or 2, maybe 3 in the seats nonchalantly looking over in the direction of the ooo-ers and Ahhh-ers; those few get it. And before anyone is defensive because they know, lashes out that I'm this or that....I don't care. These are obviously my opinions and I'm looking for the opinions of others On The  Question  At  Hand  and not whether or not I am a deluded self important snob.

So, if it is not a lack of exposure, is it a lack of ability?

Surely we are all different, short, tall, smart, obtuse, near sighted, far sighted. Are the ears and or the brains of an audiophile just wired differently than others? Can non audiophiles just not hear what we hear?

Was it childhood exposure that caused this difference in wiring? My father had Altec Voice of the Theater horns and the accompanying gear. Was that it, being exposed to HIFi during brain development? My daughter gets it and boy was she pissed when I sold my VPI TT. I never got along with my father, but was he responsible for my affliction by introducing me to superior sound as an infant?

And, who are the sick ones, the philes or the non-philes?

 

TD

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mahgister
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Music has a content of his own: melody,rythm,harmony, tonality, atonality, polytonality, Chromatism, harmonics....

Acoustic has a content of his own: Timbre acoustic translation, localization in space, immersiveness, dynamic, transients, direct/reflected/ diffuse waves, reverberation time, head and ears coupling to the speakers  ,holographical distribution of sound sources etc

 

Two experiences completely different that meet one another in a music hall architecture...Not necessarily in an audio system for many musicians who are workers of their trade or too immersed in the live music playing experience to seat and be passively involved in buying costly gear... Their instrument matter way more...

I am handicapped because i dont play any instrument, and sound speak to my eye and tell a story...but i am not musically trained... i listen Scriabin to feel a "buzz" as powerful as drug....I "see" a Bruckner symphony exactly as we see a movie... I can describe all chords as part of a complex story...

It is why i add to music vocabulary and albums the vocabulary of acoustic to "clarify" my music experience as a sound seeing experience too...

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tonydennison OP
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@kota1 

What would the poll question be ? There seem to be many issues currently

kota1
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@tonydennison

(first write your short definition of the sickness you describe in the headline of this thread then ask)

Who has the sickness the Phile or the Non-Phile?

and see if you can add check boxes to select either one.

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tonydennison OP
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Oh...I thought there was an actual polling app within audiogon. 

Gotcha

 

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tonydennison OP
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You appenrently cant edit a post once responses start.

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