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In Reply to: RE: I find Sonos' products to be respectable in audio quality, and good value for money posted by John Marks on February 22, 2015 at 16:32:13
when one is reading, working, taking a shower, or cleaning around the house, etc. what does that make one?
Is it a matter of what one listens to, what one is doing while they listen, one's equipment, what criteria?
And what is music, if it is does not consist of sounds that one likes, unless one is a Calvinist or a Lutheran.
Observe, before you think. Think before you open your yap. Act on the basis of experience.
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... as I was unclogging the toilet.Somehow worked in that context.
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1. My cleaning music is Julie London, and an iMac's internal speakers are OK for that. When I am sitting down to listen to a string quartet, I want very good sound. Horses for courses.
2. The decisive criterion as far as I am concerned is (the inquiry being, is Person X an appropriate prospect for fine audio, and therefore someone the industry should be willing to spend money to locate and educate and persuade) is:
"Is music for its own sake sufficiently important to this person that he or she is willing to give up or cut back on something else in their lives in order to pay for better audio equipment, even if it is only decent headphones under $300?"
Almost anyone with an automobile can afford some good audio equipment by the simple expedient of keeping the car longer and trading cars in for new less frequently. But most people would rather be seen in a newer car rather than one with issues, than have better stereos, because for their purposes Sonos is good enough and very short money.
3. Music on one level consists of sounds one likes, but on the deeper level it conveys meaning--whether the meaning is Bach's reconciling God's ways to man, Mozart's reveling in sensuous melodic beauty, or Beethoven's Heaven-Storming RageŽ. The sound is a matter of perception acting upon nerve impulses, but the meaning depends upon cognition and acculturation.
ATB,
JM
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