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For too many 'audiophile' + 'music' = 'classical'.

I say this as an audiophile, a classically trained (but lapsed) violinist, a lover of jazz and from a demographic that could be easily associated with the leading exponents of the hip-hop genre.

Often, forums like this become pissing alleys for the insecure to parade their neuroses in increasingly facetious attempts to reassure us all of their credentials as members of one or other audiophile cult, or sub-sects thereof. It's dull, and robs us all of new and interesting ways of experiencing our love of sound and fine music - in all its forms.

My experience of audiophile jazz lovers is that they are more interested in listening to it and the performances entailed within, than writing incessantly about whether they can tell what skins the drummer was using or similar. Anecdotal and local evidence for sure, but I'm not sure why this should be. However, culturally speaking, an overweening focus on empiricism, pride in intellectual supremacism - the cultures and cultural markers that produced modern European (and associated, extended) societies of today, seem to have a part to play in this ever-present desire to re-affirm musical hierarchies and the inferences attached to them.


Big J

"... only a very few individuals understand as yet that personal salvation is a contradiction in terms."



Edits: 09/27/14

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