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In Reply to: Stereophile Poll posted by jdouglas51 on April 21, 2007 at 08:20:41:
..as our Governor pronounces it, our paper is hurled from the window of a Honda.I envy those that are satisfied with a modest system and are only interested in music, it would be so much easier and leave more funds for smarter purchases.
Cheers
Follow Ups:
they come from older buicks, etc. The goal of a modest but good (and more importantly stable in terms of new equipment) and more focus on music is an important one. I try to do both. My income dictates the "modesty" of my system (fairly modest I think by AA standards) but that quest for 'better sounds' is hard to ignore...and for me at least, that quest ususally interfers with the quest for deeper music appreciation....(for example, I often read Stereophile while listening to music)....
I think we're in the same boat, and paddling in the same direction☺I love my gear but nothing beats the excitement of finding a new favorite record.
Cheers
"You're pretty good"
-Albert King to Stevie Ray Vaughan
I can remember exact days and record stores that I bought certain albums in growing up and in college. Sgt Pepper. Tommy. etc. And the excitemnet of a new Dylan album for many years far outshadowed anything else. But when I grew tired of folk/pop/rock and the great Coltrane and Miles left the planet, that particular kind of excitement was gone. I moved by fits and starts into classical music and I discovered how much I love Beethoven. But a new performace of a Beethoven piece doesn't have the impact on me that a new recording, with new material, of the Eagles or a few others used to have. Now, a new piece by Beethoven would be another matter....
Listened to this 52 year old record this morning, and Bob Dylan is yakking about "Modern Times" as I write this
I was listening to Coltrane's Selflessness LP in the other room before I came into the computer.....Gotta find my Beethoven's 6th on LP (I have two copies on cd for some reasom) by Bernstein...will let you know if I find it. I would have bought it (new, for $3.98 I bet) at least 40 years ago...
Or even in Springfield, reading Stereophile while listening to music is an enhancement to both, not an interference.It even helps at the symphony. Years ago subscribers to the Eugene Symphony were invited to a rehearsal and I had walked over to the bookmark and bought a stereo magazine (TAS?) while waiting for it to start. Great fun, listening while reading and looking up once in a while to watch the orchestra. Felt right at home...
Rick
So does that make you a former Duck? I don't think I went to the symphony ever while I was a UofO, but I did hear some great concerts--including Dave Bruebeck and Joan Baez. And I still remember those performances, the terrible acoustics of MacArthur Court notwithstanding.
No, I've lived here quite a spell but have never actually been a duck.The Hult center definitely has better acoustics than the pit, especially if you have the right seats. It was built around '81 so may have been after your time. Unfortunately they had a rum philosophy when they built it and designed it to use artificial reverb. However if you sit within the field of the first reflection off the shell it's pretty good. And it doesn't echo...
Rick
are done in that very way. It keeps me from listening too hard, finding flaws in the recording and/or listening to the system instead of the music.
Reading while listening is a good indication of the quality of the music I'm listening to. If it's special, I'm not doing much if any reading. If it's not, I read voraciously.All you Freudians out there can make of this what you will.
John Crossett____________________________
It sounds like English, but I can't understand a word you're saying.
to encounter some of the same challenges a dealer does from time to time, and that is a tendency to focus more on the equipment. "Let's see how it handles this next riff, blah, blah, blah." I have found that a couple of glasses of wine takes care of that curse even better than reading. ;~)
Oh we reviewers do listen for what the equipment is doing - when we have our reviewers hat on. But when we don't.....
John Crossett____________________________
It sounds like English, but I can't understand a word you're saying.
Ostensibly, so are mine. That's why I tell myself I do it--read while listening. But I'm not so sure (for me) that it's true. And here's another thing--in my Honda (NOT while I'm delivering papers), with whatever speakers came standard and a $200 Pioneer cd player--I get tremendous musical enjoyment. I will think sometimes, oh, gee, I bet this sounds better on my System, but if I don't have those thoughts, I just enjoy. I have thought sometimes it has to do with the array of speakers "surrounding" me, and also that the distractions (watch out!) while driving, really take my mind off sound quality.
You know how cynical some people can be. ;~) I can report that the same phenomena exists in my battleship Crown Vic.
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