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In Reply to: Life is a balance......................... posted by Cut-Throat on November 12, 2017 at 12:06:19:
>> If I started playing with wooden blocks, I would not be 'Balanced'. <<
That's fair enough. What makes for a "balanced life" clearly varies from person-to-person. When I first became an "industry professional", designing and manufacturing loudspeakers, I could not reliably hear difference between cables or footers (back then there were only cones made from different metals - sorbothane was just coming out).
Doing it professionally had me listening many hours a day and exposed to many different systems - at other manufacturers, dealers, and reviewers. After a few years of this exposure, I could easily hear differences to both of the above.
When at Ayre I had the conscious realization that if dealers, reviewers, customers, and other manufacturers had trained their listening skills to be better than mine that I would literally be at a competitive disadvantage. If I couldn't hear flaws in the products I designed while others could, I would be living in "blissful ignorance" - yet losing sales to those who could hear the flaws. This was simply an observation - it didn't induce me to develop and maintain any explicit "listening training program".
Yet every time we would do listening tests for different circuits, or different parts, or different circuit parameters, a byproduct would be that my listening skills increased. I've also met people who seem to be naturally gifted in this regard - they can hear virtually the same fine differences that required decades for me to develop - without even being "audiophiles" or focusing on any kind of training.
It's the same for the Hydrogen Audio crowd who don't hear any difference between wires or electronics - only speakers and rooms. It doesn't bother me or hurt me in any way. It only becomes annoying when they try to tell me what I can or cannot hear, and that I am trying to "rip off" unsuspecting "suckers".
There have been many, many times when careful listeners have told me of low or no-cost tweaks to improve the sound of my system. I thought the ideas so ridiculous that for years I refused to even try them. Then when I finally did, I was kicking myself for not doing it years prior and enjoying much better sounding music the whole time.
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- RE: Life is a balance......................... - Charles Hansen 07:49:27 11/13/17 (2)
- RE: Life is a balance......................... - Ryelands 10:52:17 11/13/17 (1)
- RE: Life is a balance......................... - Charles Hansen 20:31:02 11/13/17 (0)
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