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There are only 24 hours in a day, and some number of years in a life...

Posted by willkayakforfood (A) on July 13, 2014 at 10:12:13

In Reply to: "don't like to spend much time on tinkering and tweaking" - that means... posted by carcass93 on July 13, 2014 at 08:31:21:

I'd rather spend more of the time I have immersed in music (practice, performance, and hearing/feeling -- especially live performance) than in trying to tweak machines into reproducing, at the very best, a superficial representation of the sound of a single instance of performance/production (will never perfectly reproduce the living, breathing, and ever-evolving experience of live performance -- and that's okay with me). If that's what you're into however, fine, but don't confuse that with one's ability to "connect with music" -- either live or reproduced via electrical/mechanical sound system.

As a living, breathing, lifelong performing musician, I have my priorities, just as no doubt, you have yours.

I mentioned it in my original post in this thread, and it's worth mentioning again (and again, and again, and again...) -- I get musicality, PRAT, and experience emotion through the music itself, and the specific performance of musicians, not from electromechanical components unrealistically expected to "deliver/spoon-feed" them on a platter. If one knows how to find "where music lives", even relatively "inferior" reproduction can get you there without any trouble.

That said, I'm certainly not trying to say that sound quality doesn't matter. On the contrary, as a musician, I've spent my life pouring my heart and soul into producing very specific sounds, and instead of spending time messing around with stereo equipment, my time and energy is better spent dealing with the tools of my trade -- instruments, bows, acoustic spaces, etc. Even all that is just in preparation for actually opening the door and walking through it, to where words are no longer adequate or relevant. There -- is where I like to spend my time and spirit.

I could also sit here and spend a lifetime pondering the spiritual amd philosophical aspects of a life in music, but even that takes time away from "just living it", which is what I'd rather be doing. One last thing for the moment, though...

In your selective quoting, and subsequent commentary based on the incomplete quote, you chose to omit the first part of that sentence...

"Though I will no doubt continue to explore ways to improve the computer system's sound (with either continued use of laptop, or something else, eventually),..."

After quoting only the second half of that sentence...

"..."don't like to spend much time on tinkering and tweaking", and then saying:

"that means ... that you'll have to be content with the status-quo."

...your "status quo" comment is, at best, inaccurate.

My choice to spend less time and energy tinkering, tweaking, or even discussing stereo gear seems perfectly reasonable to me, considering my priorities. Your priorities are obviously different, and that's just fine.

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