I find myself "tuning out" anymore.....is the magic fading?
I think I might have hit a plateau in my audiophile/hi-fi journey.
I'm not saying that I don't enjoy listening to my system and music, I certainly do.
However, (and not trying to turn this into a b*tch session), I am REALLY tired of a lot of things that go along with this hobby.
It dawned on me when I received (unsolicited, mind you) a copy of Stereophile and a MusicDirect catalog the other day in the mail.
I can't find a single thing in either magazine that I actually want. Nothing. Even the pretty ad pictures just don't do it for me.
I used to subscribe to several YouTube audio influencer channels. I can't hardly sit through any of them anymore without grimacing. Everything is the "latest/greatest/gotta have it" product. Not only do I just not really trust you any more, but I find myself simply not interested in what you are peddling.
How many different speakers are you going to audition? Jeez.....buy a set and enjoy them. They can't ALL be the speakers you've ever heard.
Even on here, I find discussions of whether or not some tweak works or doesn't work (cables/fuses/magic rocks, whatever....) to be boring and not worth the time to respond. They might work for you, might not work, I don't care.
Any discussions using the term "Snake Oil" will be summarily dismissed from any future consideration of thought.
Which DAC is the best? How come I still listen to CDs when you can rip all your music to a HD? You NEED a turntable! Your amp is old and sucks. Buy some new speaker cables. Double blind test your interconnects and you'll see.... The Pink Panther brigade says if I measure it, it must be true. (Your ears be d*mned!) You NEED to do this/that or the other thing....because I said so.
Maybe some day I'll get the "upgrade-itis" bug again, but at this point, I'm just not interested. Jaded might be a good word, I don't know....burnt out? Overload?
Anyway, rant over. Was just wondering if anyone else ever got to this point.
sounds more like some stew in cannabis as opposed to some cannabis in stew |
Thank you for posting your thoughts...I feel your frustration at a profound level as I just hate what marketing departments are doing to obfuscating real understanding of what a given product actually offers. Now when I evaluate a new product I look at the features, the specs, and avoid as much of the hyperbole as possible. I have been burned by marketing hype in spite of my efforts to avoid it. It really grates on me that marketing departments are not more honest, but I realize they totally are not honest. Its mostly BS and while I can navigate bs to get to the truth, I do not enjoy it at all. I am in the unique position of buying within the next year or so the equipment I will mostly live with for the rest of my days. This is a daunting task given the level of BS in todays marketing material. Choosing stuff that actually performs vs equipment that just is marketing BS is much more difficult that it used to be. So we are taking a very cautious approach to new equipment in every category. No where am I more afraid that in the TV/display category...so much poorly built equipment and then shipped via the gorillas at UPS to your home only to be broken and completely non functional on initial start up. So many reviews that complain about gorilla installers and shipping and handling. People who have tried 3, 4, even 5 times to get a working tv only to be disappointed by the poor handling of the shipping company. OMG it is just rampant the level of disregard for the fragility of these displays and the subesequent mishandling is beyond moronic. Its very hard to justify buying a display of any significant size. |
@coralkong this is simply a hobby, but a non-standardize highly subjective one with many opinions. It takes much effort to sift through to find one’s ideal fear within budget. One should get enjoyment from their hobbies, it’s not unusual for interest to fade. Wishing you the best |
