On Friday, December 6, 2013 7:47:26 AM UTC-8, Oregonian Haruspex wrote:
On 2013-12-06 02:17:09 +0000, Audio_Empire said:
On Tuesday, December 3, 2013 2:45:44 AM UTC-8, Oregonian Haruspex wrote:
On 2013-12-02 19:26:26 +0000, said:
This weeks stereophile has this:
http://www.stereophile.com/content/snob-appeal-0
So, to reiterate, if you tend to like to talk about your gear, you're
an "audiophile" (ie snob, gearhead) and if you like to talk about music
then you're a music lover.
Just to be clear, are you saying that those two states of being are mutually
exclusive? Can't one be both a music lover and enjoy the equipment and the
technology behind it?
Why not? I don't care what gets other people off. A gear obsession
isn't really a bad thing in my opinion, but it usually has nothing to
do with the love of music.
I think maybe you don't know what "mutually exclusive" means. If they are mutually exclusive then a passion for one precludes a passion for the other. So it goes beyond having nothing to do with each other.
Making an automobile analogy, there are people who obsess over every
little detail of their classic cars, bring them to shows, and so forth
with the purpose of showing them off. Then there are the people who
actually drive these things up and down the highway. Sometimes they do
both, but you'd be surprised at the number of classic cars that are
trucked into car shows.
There is no doing both if they are mutually exclusive.