"The Mystery Of Sound Is Mysticism"

@mijostyn 

 Others here have said what I might try to say and said it better. The" problem" is that speaking of It will not make It real for you. I do not know how to bridge this gap. 

@stuartk 

Reality and mysticism are always at odds with each other. I have been told on many occasions that I have to give people "hope." I never did when there was none. Miracles only happen in fairy tales. Fairy tales are for children. 

I am a huge John Coltrane fan, but there was a point were he left me behind. You can't play tennis without a net. Trane threw the net away. It was not brilliance or mystical. He was undoubtedly searching for something and perhaps it would have made more sense if he had survived longer.  

Now Coltrane is too mystical or non sensical in clear ...😁 ( Sun Ra must be a complete failure for you )

He threw the "net" away ...

For sure an accountant need "a net" to live a life ...

Reality is reality, said the accountant...

Mysticism is a word empty of content in my book say the accountant ...

What a life you live ....No dreams except in the bed... No ectasy save reading your credit line ...

Poetry means nothing ... atom exist and God is a myth...

All we need is EQ of our life as we EQ our gear ...The life must resemble an average Gauss curve or a Harman curve , nothing must exceed the limit ...😁

I never encountered someone as you mijostyn...They will not even came to see me as students ...They dont read...Save for killing time ...

I am sorry but i am not used to speak to old boring man who will learn nothing more ...I miss the students ...This is why i spoke too much ...😁

Reality and mysticism are always at odds with each other.

What is at odds is mediocrity and genius ...Not mysticism and reality ...Read a book... I gave plenty of recommendation that completely contradict your saying ...

It is incredible... The OP recommended a marvellous deep video and you came spilling your opinion as truth , claiming all this is non sensical ...Think about that ...

And you know NOTHING about any of the thinkers i spoke about but instead of asking questions , you repeated your motto as an accountant his columns prayers...

Hildegard of Bingen and Teresa of Avila two of the greatest mystic in European history were so grounded and pragmatic character as much as knowleageable that kings and men of knowledge consulted these two women who organize the practical life of convents on all aspects of life and was anything save deluded dreamers...

Read a book about them Mijostyn ...

Hildegard was a scientist and a doctor and a musical genius self taught ...

I dont know mystic who are not grounded in concrete reality ...

But i know accountant philistine who conflate their book with reality ...😊

One of the greatest mystic who is also one of the greatest scientist of his time is Emmanual Swedenborg , who discovered the Cerebral cortex, and he even imagine fractals before Mandelbrot ...He advised the Swedish Queen on all scientific matter , do you think he was deluded ? He was called because of his inventions , the Leonardo Da Vinci of the North... Dr. Suzuki call him the Buddha of the North ...

And what about Raimon Lull the creator of Cybernetic said Norbert Wiener speaking about the creation by Lull of the first combinatoric logic with retroactive input in history in the twelveth century ... He was one of the greatest poet and mystic to ever lived and a mind so deep that all the islam word listened to him ...he want to created a crusade of thinking not of swords ...

Only an ignorant can confuse mysticism with unrealistic immature minds ... And only ignorance can confuse spiritual experience with superstition ...

He was undoubtedly searching for something and perhaps it would have made more sense if he had survived longer.

The only thing worse than being old is being old and alone. No, that is not right. Old, alone and without a stereo. That is the worst.

I don’t think at all that @mijostyn is as negative as he may seem. Stubborn as a Georgia mule, yes but I have come to recognize him as one who has a peculiar talent to spark debate with the keen ability to make others want to participate.

I’ve seen him use a paragraph or even one sentence to start the debate about, styli, tonearms, turntables, subwoofers and seen everyone from, chackster, Raul, Atmosphere and even Audiokinesis want chime in and this would go on for days.

I say this in with a positive vibe. But I’ve never seen so much fatalism from you? Take care my audiophile friend, I’ve been fortunate enough to learn so much from you here on Audiogon.