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Re: Hi-Fi Fetishism Posts

Posted by Bold Eagle (A) on February 22, 2007 at 09:31:01

In Reply to: Hi-Fi Fetishism Posts posted by Tancred on February 22, 2007 at 09:02:06:

Tancred,

Thanks for the response.

Since you went to a hardware oriented site, it is logical that would receive a hardware oriented response.

Had you gone to some music appreciation site, I think you would have found a lot higher percentage of female involvement. (offhand, I don't know of such a site)

However, I would not be too quick in dismissing our interest and love of music for it's own sake. Were we not interested in the music itself, it's likely we would have chosen some other technical hobby like photography, or cars, woodworking, or model building as an outlet for our tinkering urges. (I think most of us have several) In my own case, it was the desire to have music in the home at age 15 that got me started on the hobby back in 1953. I quickly discovered that I liked the hardware side a lot.

I think the guy with a $100,000 system and 20 records is an abberation. I have over 450 CD's myself and I'd guess most of the others here on this forum have large collections as well. I also go to the public library and check out CD's of music that looks interesting for possible addition to my collection.

The test might be whether the person listens to his system or to the music. A common thread in reviews and discussions is whether or not the system gets in the way of the music. This happens more often to the audio hobbyist, since we're "tuned" to be sensitive to system faults. However, once the system reaches a certain level of perfection, the music transcends the system. It does not take a lot of money to reach that point, but it does take a fair amount of time and effort.

Jerry

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