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RE: Apparently, you missed an important qualitifer.

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In Reply to: RE: Apparently, you missed an important qualitifer. posted by tube wrangler on June 02, 2012 at 15:59:28

Hi Dennis,

I am glad you interpreted my comments as I intended - sometimes I am less than clear. Sometimes in my efforts to tell people what I don't like I fail to let them know what I do like.

I agree with much you say, applaud the path you have taken and thank you for your willingness to question and share, even if I don't agree with everything you claim. I agree with much of your post, though I don't think someone is stupid for choosing equipment – consciously or not – different or inferior to what you have described.

It is understandable for someone who likes a certain type of music, to try to maximise their enjoyment of it, possibly to the detriment of other genres (often without realising it). When they listen to those other genres they might think them uninteresting, overly bombastic, crude, poorly recorded... indeed, it could be the fault of their system. And/or they may just not like that type of music. So they miss out, in a way. Or not. But, is it really missing out if they are enjoying their preferred music more? Their experiences would be limited, but I would not judge their choice as stupid. All of us are limited in our experiences. All of us make decisions that we feel are based on sound reasoning that are apparently daft to others. We all have blind spots. We are all at the mercy of our own BS.

There is much more I could say. But I will end here because I now wonder whether anything I say is relevant. My relationship with music and its reproduction seems different to most here. It is likely based in Zen practice (though I am not an active practitioner) and is more about simply experiencing music, in 'most any form, via 'most any system... though I also recognise that such is an ideal and that there are certain systems that help bring me closer to simple experience – I am certainly no enlightened musical being. One such system would be the type you have described.

I would very much like to hear one of your systems one day.

Cheers.
“As long as we have any intention to be right… we should be wary. So long as words have the slightest ego attachment, they are dishonest.” Charlotte Joko Beck

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