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And this is why they call us 'audiophools'

Posted by Gag Halfrunt on June 9, 2012 at 06:14:43

In Reply to: RE: I doubt it.... posted by JayG on June 8, 2012 at 21:26:39:

There's a thin line between music snob and music bigot, but it sounds like you crossed that line long ago. Perhaps, with electrodes used in the right places you could be rehabilitated into a music lover, but I doubt it.

As long as there has been music, there have been music snobs. I'm convinced there would have been people dismissing Bach as populist, when he was tempering music and setting the seeds for all modern western music.

A good system can play any kind of music, and can be owned by any kind of music lover. It's why I'm a big fan of Audio Note's approach to this. Last time I was at a show, Audio Note was the only room playing Schubert. It was also the only room playing Peaches. And everything in between. If it sounds good on both, it must be good. But by limiting to one genre, you risk making an unhinged system. Playing a system on rock music alone will make artificially pitched systems, as does making systems uniquely tested on jazz or classical. I've heard systems selected by people who only listen to opera, and they invariably create a big soundstage, but lacking in detail compared to those designed for orchestral replay. So it is with a system designed with rock, which can have better dynamic range and headroom than many classical-designed systems, but which frequently is pitched toward the frequency extremes. A good system does all that, and only does it if the person putting the system together listens to everything.

Dead WASPs and 1950s heroin addicts were not the only people with the keys to music, and as soon as audio gets past playing to a tiny slice of the music buying market, the sooner it gets back to selling to real people.

Have you ever considered that the reason why Wilson might have been playing grunge (and it probably wasn't grunge, that was 20 years ago... it was probably Americana) is that Wilson needs to start selling loudspeakers to people born after the baby boom.

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