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Am I right for this forum?

I’ve been an Audiogon member for some years now; I remember (fondly) "millercarbon," for example, which will mean something to some of you. And I’ve been a lover of audio equipment since high school—so, for over 50 years (I graduated in 1973). And yet...more and more, I find myself alienated from this forum, even though I do still read it regularly.

I do have what I consider a very "high-fidelity" system. I’ve written a very long account of my "audio journey," complete with many photos, but not "published" it on this site. I’m also a member of our local audio club, which includes several very well-heeled members who have systems costing more than most homes (one of them owns equipment valued at nearly a million dollars, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg: his system is housed in a separate structure purpose-built for it that cost well over a million). I play cello and guitar; my wife plays piano, my daughter piano and violin. We play those instruments in the same room occupied by my main audio system, and so I can attest to the "fidelity" of that system’s reproduction.

And yet...my system cost me less than $3,000 in total. I don’t lust after any particular "upgrade," even though I read reviews and all the many accounts of improvements in "SQ" documented in this forum.

So...am I an "audiophile," or not? Do I belong here, or not?


I’m listening right now to a wonderful bit of Mozart. I also love Tool. And Christy Moore. And Eva Cassidy. And so many others. I agree with Nietzsche: without music, life would be a mistake. But am I an audiophile? Do I belong on this forum?

Any sympathy here? Anyone else feel alienated from the "audiophile community" despite loving the miracle of audio technology?

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danager
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@tomic601

 

I'm just a guy with a hobby.  On the MC System post there is a photo of the group at the meet up,  I'm the good looking one.

In real life?  Do you mean in a metaphysical, philosophical or 3d dimensional sense?  You can check my posts I try to be consistent and up front with both my expertise or lack there of.  I'm a year older then the OP if he was truthful about the year he graduated and was once in the biz way to many decades ago.  Are you asking because you don't believe that I belong here either or can't believe that an online persona is an actual person in "real life".  Just a question,  you have almost as many posts as Millercarbon.  How many times have you opened your home to a persona on a forum to let them hear your system that you have never met?  It wasn't Chuck but I've actually had a member mail be set of expensive interconnects just so I could compare them to my inexpensive ones with the only request is that i reimburse  his shipping cost when I returned them. 

Maybe before you make accusations pertaining to a persons identity you should you take your finger out of whatever dark place you appear to be storing it and use it to simply click on my posts and see for yourself who I am.

 

 

 

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asvjerry
4,715 posts
 

@mahgister  ...there's a variant of the FFLS that expands upon it. *S*

I'll dredge it up and see if I can get the pdf to stick....

... even the afflicted can grasp it.... ;)

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yogiboy
5,725 posts
 

You must learn to take a few of the posters here with a grain of salt. Many of them don’t or never will have the gear that they claim to have. Did you ever notice that they never show their systems? My guess is that they are full of Poop!

deep_333
1,471 posts
 

The issue is...once a typical audioboo snob goes up in price, he will never look at anything cheaper lest it beat his high price junk, somehow. So, you will never get a fair comparison, feel for what you get as you go up in price on a speaker in the same room with the same electronics. 

For example, there is the question of at what point is a speaker just getting carried by the electronics? A guy will put a 15k or 5k speaker on 10k, 5k, etc cheaper electronics, a 60k speaker on 40k electronics and so on. He will never give that 15k speaker or a 5k speaker the same chance (i.e put both the 60k speaker and the 15k speaker on the same 40k electronics). And then, he'll claim that the carried 60k speaker beat the 15k speaker or 5k speaker. When you level out the playing field, "interesting" results emerge.

It you are in the KC FB group, swing by for a demo/comparison of gear at drastically different price brackets (see what you get as you go up in price or not), some good ol' fashioned myth busting and acquisition of 'disruptive' knowledge.

ronboco
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@snilf 

You are absolutely an audiophile in my book. I’ve only been doing this for three years. I figure at my level of knowledge  I’m a junior audiophile at best and will probably stay that way as I just want to enjoy the music and not spend many years swapping out gear. 
 

Happy listening! 

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