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In the Thread: Aporia - Silbatone Acoustics speaker
Post Subject: Why do we have high end stereos?Posted by drdna on: 2/10/2009
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 Joe Roberts wrote:
I am past fetishishizing on gear and detailed quasi-scientific evaluation programs. I am a music listener again. All I care about, really, is my individual enjoyment. I am not comparing live vs. memorex. I am criticizing the justification and even possibility of this comparison. I just listen to my shitty, imperfect stereo and try to enjoy it.
Joe, you bring up a very good point. At a certain point, I think our ears and minds learn what to hear when we listen to our stereos. I admit freely I do not listen only to my "high end" system. I spend a lot of time listening to my cheap speakers in the car or my tiny earphones for my iPod. AND I enjoy those things a lot. My familiarity with the sounds of music, with the composers/artists, and with the pieces/performances allows me to connect with a great deal of the Sound through these simple flawed devices.

So what is high end audio, then? I know for some it is the quest for the perfect soundstage, but let us exclude them for the moment. Rather, is it a way for us to become more connected to the Sound? In a sense, like a crutch for an invalid whose legs are too weak. To be used until he can regain the strength of his own legs, then to be discarded as unnecessary?

Will we all at some point dispense with high end audio because we no longer need it to be connected to the Sound?

Or is there something else that draws us to our high end systems?

Adrian

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