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LoFi

My sound system is down for repairs (I don’t know for how long). I’m now reduced to listening to music on Alexa’s transmission of WQXR, New York’s classical music station, in LoFi. Surprisingly, I’m getting into the music more easily. Without the distraction of sonic values, I’m able to totally concentrate on the music itself. I don’t need Hifi and soundstaging to “get” the musical message. it brings me back to my youth when I listened on a table radio and first fell in love with music. I find that I now can follow a piece of music from beginning to end more easily.

Not that I’m ready to give up the hobby. Just an interesting observation.

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sls883
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If I could jump into my purple Super Bee, pop in an 8 track tape, and ride around drinking beer with my friends, Tim and Alan, that would be heaven. Unfortunately, they both passed at a young age, but I still have those memories of cranking tunes. 

immatthewj
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If I could jump into my purple Super Bee, pop in an 8 track tape, and ride around drinking beer with my friends, Tim and Alan, that would be heaven.

Yup.  I didn't know your friends, but I remember those days.  It was fun.  But it's like most anything--one thing leads to another.  

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roxy54
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I would trade all of the gear that I have ever owned to have friends to listen with like I once had. Listening by myself has its own charms, but I really miss the listening/conversing of my late teens.

@stereo5 

That was my first thought...what's the problem?

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wturkey
825 posts
 

Give it a while. The ears will begin to burn from the degradation in sound quality. 
 

 

immatthewj
2,390 posts
 

Well, like they always say, "That was then and this is now."  

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