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In the Thread: A response to David Hurvitz
Post Subject: What He Said!Posted by Paul S on: 12/16/2024
Yes, David Hurwitz is a wonderful, thoughtful and sane music-loving musicologist and critic who does not seem to take himself too seriously (although he knows what he knows). No surprise he is not an audio guy (any more than most musicians), and no surprise to me that he perceives a disconnect between audiophilia and Music, since Music has so little to do with "mainstream audio" in the first place, including the people who have achieved the pinnacle of mainstream audio by acquiring and assembling the most talked about electronics as an end in itself, or possibly as a means of hearing a test recording a certain proscribed way. Of course this is anathema to David and his ilk, and again no surprise that he is not aware of high-end audio as we approach it. And since our numbers are few, he likely has no idea how little use we have for mainstream audio, probably for similar or maybe the same reasons he is repulsed by it.
Great post. Nice to have it articulated and archived.
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