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Are you an Audiophille or a Music Lover No.2 ?

To follow up Onhwy61's other post.
Here's another slant which might be a more probing question.
If from today you had the choice to spent your cash on new music and by that I mean only new music,no reissues,only new original music released from 2002 onwards or the choice of spending your cash on upgrading your kit but keeping your music collection as is,what would you choose?
I think for most Audiogoners that may be a more difficult question-remember you can keep your entire music collection and upgrade to infinity or be stuck with your system as is but be free only to buy new music.
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ben_campbell
consttraveler
250 posts
 
I would up-grade my system (and while you were not looking, find more music).
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muzikat
926 posts
 
Can I upgrade one more time before we start?
kthomas
911 posts
 
I'll take the music. Imagine saying you can only listen to music that's more than 20 years old today - that's where somebody would get who opted for the system. For some, that wouldn't be a problem. For me, I'd feel like I had partially died.

The other question would have been a lot harder if it had been a sliding scale of some sort - I could easily do with 2000 CDs instead of 10000, but the boombox would necessarily limit my enjoyment to the point that it would diminish how much time and energy I put into it. However, a couple thousand CDs with a modest budget (say $1000-1500) and I could say my enjoyment wouldn't be diminished much at all. -Kirk

garfish
1,840 posts
 
I have a helluva satisfying stereo system but only 1000+ CDs, so I would go for the music-- as long as I can replace my pre-amp tubes once in a while. One of the most exciting aspects of this sport to me is finding excitng new music/artists. A good recent example of this for me was "discovering" both Allison Moorer's music and Alison Krauss' music about the same time. And BTW, both of these were recommended to me by other A'Gon members:>) Cheers. Craig
thedautch
329 posts
 
I swear, it feels like the general state of music gets worse all the time. The growing domination of drivel is so pervasive that I would listen to yesterday's music on the best system possible, and regret it less than if I did it the other way around.
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