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In Reply to: obsession(s) with tiny differenences... posted by Jim Dowdy on January 29, 2015 at 13:31:29:
Them's fighting words. I don't like you either.I used to enjoy talking here about tube audio design. It was fun to share thoughts and ideas with like-minded people. It stopped being fun when the discussion got taken over by a small number of people with personality disorders.
Like I said, either you see it or you don't.
Frankly, I don't give a damn about life-changing schematics. There are no life-changing schematics. Every meaningful tube amp schematic has been drawn; every combination of component values has been tried. It's all retrospective now.
The problem, IMHO, is that a bunch of self-important assholes have decided that their kindergarten playground shovel-diggings somehow equate to Life-Changing Art. It's crap.
Learning engineering changed my life. Learning to play piano changed my life. Sitting on the couch with my chin on my fist listening intently and seriously for the subtle differences in transient inner detail has no appeal to me.
OK, maybe it's fun for some people. I used to enjoy it, too, until I got sick of it. Let's just not pretend being a golden-ear is something profound. It ain't.
Beethoven is profound. Chopin is profound. Schubert is profound. (Vivaldi is... meh.)
Tweaking is not profound.
-Henry
Edits: 01/29/15
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Follow Ups
- RE: obsession(s) with tiny differenences... - op48no1 13:45:38 01/29/15 (7)
- resignation - Jim Dowdy 13:50:01 01/29/15 (6)
- RE: resignation - op48no1 14:09:27 01/29/15 (5)
- 'the things I have to say aren't necessarily simple or easy to understand' - Jim Dowdy 14:18:14 01/29/15 (4)
- RE: 'the things I have to say aren't necessarily simple or easy to understand' - op48no1 15:37:29 01/29/15 (3)
- indeed - Jim Dowdy 15:52:01 01/29/15 (2)
- +1 - drlowmu 12:11:47 01/31/15 (0)
- RE: indeed - op48no1 16:07:35 01/29/15 (0)
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