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In the Forum: Audio Discussions
In the Thread: The CES 2005
Post Subject: CES: the conclusion.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 1/11/2005

For whatever reasons the trip to that WAVAC room and listing that WAVAC 833 made me think a lot about a needs of music understanding for audio professional. This is an old subject but after me getting my WAVAC 833 experience I got a deferent sweeping prospective to this thing. I suddenly begin to feel that my minimalism demanding from audio manufacturer in-depth understanding of the nature of musicality was not as strong as it should be. My experience with WAVAC 833 brought my intolerance to the subject to the highs where it never was before. I spent a lot of very useful time after the WAVAC room visiting some famous manufacturers, listening some specific aspects of thier products and correlating it with the manufacturers specific ignorance of sometime barbarianism in the subjects of understanding musical culture and appreciation of the expressive methods of musicality. Doing this I was staying at the very extreme position of disregarding any audio justifiable BS if it did not have any references to what I would consider was musically permissible…. The new would and the new level of audio despair was opening for me…. I had many conversations after this with quite popular audio manufactures and practically all of them sounded to me so idiotic that it was even insulating to me that I was taking with them.

In the end I was feeling very bad about myself. I was feeling bad because I kind of had "fun" despite of the fact that clearly understood that it was not fan. I was feeling bad about myself and could not believe that I could be such an idiot who would consider that the socializing with the CES crowd was something that I could actually call “fan”. I was asking myself if am I so freaking miserable that dealing with those CES's audio-Morons become a fun-spent time for me?

Anyhow, no mater what kind decisions about myself I would make I can tell defiantly that this my visit to the WAVAC 833 room at CES 2005 and my consequential experiments with audio people at the show did make some permanent changes within my relationship with audio. I released that I was wrong. My apologies to all with whom I dealt for years and with whom I shared my observations about audio - now I feel that I was mistaken in many instances. My major problem was that I never was radical enough in my audio judgments.  Now it is gone and I’m cured. Thanks for this shocking lesson that WAVAC 833 did to me at CES and it was really “eyes opening experience”.

Rgs,
Romy the Cat

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