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In Reply to: RE: stop looking and just listen posted by xaudiomanx on March 14, 2025 at 09:22:13
The nights where I can put on LP after LP and simply enjoy the music, without thoughts of trying this tube, that cartridge, or those capacitors creeping in and interrupting my musical pleasure.
It's the eternal struggle between the music lover and audio hobbyist within me. I realize the conflict will never truly end, but still, I always root for the music lover over the 'audiophile'.
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I agree completely. And ever since I completed my last preamp, it has become much easier to ignore equipment technicalities. The system is finally again all-tube from the TT outward, and it's very difficult to hear the difference between the main system and headphones. That has been one of the main benchmarks for me going back years. I love designing and building this equipment, but now the pressure to define the flaws and improve deficiencies is all but gone. Yay!
...because the music lover in me would be grateful. That's great that your new preamp, and your whole system, allows you to concentrate on the music, TK!
Sometimes I think back to when I was in my 20s and already loving music and hi-fi. My system was so inferior to what I'm using now, but that didn't bother me in the least. My only distractions back then were cars and females. :)
I understand, and I can identify. I equate good audio with those friends or family members over the years who were big into photography. I'd look at their 35mm prints, and if they pointed out details over a picture I took with, say, a Kodak Instamatic, sure, I could see why theirs was far better. But did I care? Nope. To me, it wasn't worth the effort and expense.
Many of them felt the same way about my audio interest. They could hear why my system was 'better', but they'd ask, "so, you just sit there and listen?". Their system was mostly background, while they were in the other room doing dishes, or out changing their oil with the windows to the house open, while the music played.
Sometimes I've envied them, and sometimes its happened to me too. The opening crescendo in Dire Straits "Money For Nothing", for example. Nearly every time I hear it, it raises goosebumps on my arms when the electric guitar cuts in. The thing is though, that has happened even when I've heard the song played on an AM radio.
"Nearly every time I hear it, it raises goosebumps on my arms when the electric guitar cuts in."
Certain musical refrains and patterns have affected me that way since childhood. I'm not sure this happens to everyone. I've met a lot of people in my life who didn't seem to enjoy music much. I had the impression that for many of them it was just an accompaniment for dancing, or as you say, background filler. Maybe there's something genetic about all this.
That's an interesting take, TK.
I didn't grow up in a very 'musical' household. My older sister oohed and aahed over Elvis, so maybe she played his 45s on her 'briefcase' record player, but if so, I have no recollection of it.
We had a couple of AM radios around the house, but my only memories of them being on was listening to hear if the schools were closed due to snow. So even with two teenage siblings, I didn't grow up in a house filled with music.
In a quirky twist, my mother would sing while doing her housework, but she didn't like music playing in the house. Maybe that 1970s Marantz ad applied to her, and it was the distortion which made her skin crawl.
I did love playing records on that aforementioned briefcase player, the spinning disc fascinating me just as much as whatever kid's music I was playing did.
I was ten when the Beatles hit in '64, and both the music and the cultural explosion of the 'British Invasion' was impossible to ignore. Over the next ten years it seemed that all my peers were talking both music and 'stereos' so that's where I think I really got the bug for both.
If it's genetic, for me, it may have skipped a generation or two, because neither of my older siblings seemed to care much for music, except in that dancing or background way you mentioned. That, or maybe I'm actually the milkman's son. [insert winky face]
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