Do You Love Music or Do You Love Hi-Fi?
I like both, and for me the hobby is about both. One could ask "On which do you spend more money?" My guess is that most of us spend more on one than on the other. And only a few of us spend about the same on each. I find it interesting that most contributers to this thread don't have "system" links. Nor do they describe their music preferences. |
Peterayer makes a fun point: "I find it interesting that most contributers to this thread don't have "system" links. Nor do they describe their music preferences." I had the same system for 20+ years, and only changed it just now in the name of visual appeal. Should probably update that. As far as music preferences, I'm a true omnivore (audiovore?), so I'm not really categorizable that way, either. Everything is too simplistic, right? I once did a "random" play on my portable, and listed the first 30 songs that came up. People thought I was kidding! It was everything from Haydn's "Nelson" mass to Faiz Ali Faiz (amazing qawwal, next Nusrat Ali Khan), the Minutemen, Olivia Newton-John, Melt-Banana, Sinatra, Wu-Tang, Peter Brotzmann etc, etc. Great music is great music, and I try not to limit myself, like lots of folks, I imagine. |
I tried to list my system in vitrual systems once, but could not get it to work. Besides everyone knows what polk speakers look like. And my Marantz PM 7200 is no beauty either. Just non-descript lo-fi stuff. The most expensive. my speakers and sacd player, but both laughable low cost by the standards of this site. It is possible that I have the cheapest system on audiogon. My primary musical preferences: I like classical, Some Italian Opera, Bop / hard bop Jazz, 60's - 80's pop and blues (delta blues)Some bluegrass and some gospel. Today I received CDs from Amazon: Ray Charles, Oscar Peterson, Bach -Julia Fischer, Vivaldi-Fabio Biondi. and McCoy Tyner. |
I find it interesting that most contributers to this thread don't have "system" links. Nor do they describe their music preferences. My musical preferences are also all over the board. Somewhat eclectic in some sense. Not much pop or rock or rap or country. Heavy leanings towards folk, alt-folk, alt, world, early music, and female vocals. Not sure what difference it makes in the context of the thread though. Current library is around 1800 albums I guess. What are you suggesting in asking that? What connection are you suggesting about specific musical tastes? My system? You can see my system right here. It's highly modified from stock though. |
