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"Arny Krueger" wrote:
"Audio_Empire" wrote in message
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I suspect that High-End audio will largely
die with us baby-boomers and older folks.
As you seem to define high end audio, yes. As it morphs, not so much.
Apparently, except for a very
few, the younger generations don't view music the way our generation
views it.
Just sitting down and listening to just recorded music and doing nothing
else as a preferred activity will largely die with our generation.
Listening to music has become an "and" process instead of an "or" process.
People now listen to music as they do something else, and that something
else may be the main activity that is getting their primary attention. So,
the experience is music and, and not so much music or.
And that's sad really, because listening to serious music is an
intellectual exercise. Not giving it all the attention it warrants is
like reading Spinoza or Marcel Proust while having sex. Your attention
just isn't 100% on your reading! 8^)
They might say that they love music, but what they actually do
love are the songs that belong to their generation.
No difference there! ;-)
Uh, yes there is. Pop music is (and has been for many years) mostly
about the lyrics, I.E. "poetry" with a beat. Largely speaking the melody
has been irrelevant. That's why pop music has morphed into rap and
hip-hop finally eliminating everything EXCEPT the lyrics and the beat.
W'se all do that to
a certain extent, But I have friends in their 40's, 30's 20 and I know
some of their teen offspring. They don't understand my love of music.
Read what follows. What they don't follow is how you express your love of
music.
"How come you spend tens-of thousands of dollars on playback equipment
when all you need is an iPod and a pair of ear-buds?" They don't get the
idea of playback quality at all.
The error here is the lack of affirmation of the true knowledge that a good
digital player and a fine pair of headphones or earphones can be as accurate
and enveloping or even more so than the dedicated room and jillions of
dollars worth of racks and boxes of equipment.
While that MIGHT be so, It's not their criticism at all. They don't
listen with a "good digital player" and a fine pair of headphones. They
listen with an iPod and cheap pair of earbuds.
One friend, in his 40's, once told me
that while he could appreciate the sound from my system, he felt that he
didn't need that because he could hear what he was *interested* in with
his little pre-packaged video surround system. Depressing.
The physical size and cost that equipment has to have in order to be
enveloping and accurate has decreased significantly. A Sansa Clip and a
pair of Sony XBA-2 earphones (for example) should not be pooh-poohed in the
way that many seem prone to do.
Who is pooh-poohing anything? I use an iPod occasionally to listen to
music casually, Lossless compression and Sony MDR-6s of course. But you
seem to be singularly intent on using my anecdote to reinforce your
opinion: I.E. that all high-end audio is bunk. Now I have no comment on
your opinion, because we've been there countless times, but I will say
that your interpretation wasn't the point of my post or of my friend's
comments at all. Their personal point, and my larger point was just what
you said above, before your soapbox got the better of you. I.E. that the
idea of sitting down and listening to great music (and great music comes
in all genres, classical, jazz, folk, even rock and so-called "easy
listening" (Sinatra, Bing, Steve and Eddie, etc., all doing their
interpretations of the "Great American Songbook") is passé and
therefore spending any money on equipment that would get one closer and
MORE INVOLVED in the music isn't a part of their lifestyle nor has it
any priority in their lives.
This is what is tragic. That society seems to be on it's way to the
human race becoming more Eloi-like with each successive generation.
'"Books? Yes, we have books." As they crumbled to dust in his hand.'
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