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In Reply to: RE: Turning in My Audiophile Badge posted by AudioDwebe on January 12, 2011 at 08:56:44
All of what you post makes sense except it begs one question: Why hand in your "audiophile badge" just because you are tired of the craziness?
I have never done most of the things you complain about, and yet I consider myself an audiophile.
Sounds like you want to refocus and downsize, which is great. Lots of folks here have done that without feeling they have handed in their badge. Fellow inmate reelsmith (Dean) pared his system waaaaay back, and seems to be enjoying the hobby all the more for doing it.
I don't think craziness is inherent in this hobby even if it is prevalent. :-)
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"Why hand in your "audiophile badge" just because you are tired of the craziness?"
That's really a great question.
Maybe I am actually just looking to "refocus and downsize".
But I just got tired of the constant search for better sound, be it through some small upgrade or speaker placement or wire elevation or...well, you get the idea.
I wanted to get more into "just" the music and be less concerned with equipment.
I agree with AudioDwebe - I turned in my membership card some time ago.
One problem is the word itself has acquired so much baggage beyond its dictionary definition that I find it rather useless these days. Often it is simply a marker for a type of obsessive-compulsive behavior when it comes to equipment.
I love music and my current system, though not particularly fancy by standards of this forum, brings me great pleasure. I do not find much attractive in the process of making endless changes that require burn-in or long term listening to pick up minute subtleties or that make one recording out of thousands sound a bit better.
More power to those who love that process - they can have the word "audiophile" all to themselves.
It took me along time to make sense of the hows and why of how I need to go about buying audio equipment. Seems to me many buyers never really find that handle and it probably is best for them to resize and/or downsize to easier to assemble systems.
Granted the market for audio equipment is quite rich and saturated for a wide variety of tastes and applications.
These days my wife and I are as particular when it comes to buying furniture, appliances, pets, etc. as I have learned to be when it comes to buying audio equipment.
The generic market place can be pretty good and satisfying for the majority of shoppers. Those who want, or need to, usually can find niche or speciality markets for whatever it is they want.
However going into any niche doesn't always mean things are "better", though it might. More often it just means things are more specialized for particular tastes.
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" Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination." -Michael McClure
Each year or so, my wife says, "Good grief, another yo-yo?"But I like em, and can give the extra ones to my nephews, who are 8 and 5 years old!
Hilarious!
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"If you are the owner of a new stereophonic system, this record will play with even more brilliant true-to-life fidelity. In short, you can purchase this record with no fear of its becoming obsolete in the future."
Edits: 01/12/11
That's funny.
I don't recall seeing those.
Thanks for sharing.
Cheers.
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