"Harry Lavo" wrote in message
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"Jenn" wrote in message

As do musicians.......

Yes. I'm a musician, and I don't see how subjectivists obsessing
about barely audible (if really audible at all) differences are ever
able to just sit back and enjoy the music.


They don't care to. Their interest (and hobby) is to make the music SOUND
good or at its best. Perhaps when and if they ever reach satisfaction
with
the performance of their systems, they do sit back and enjoy the music
for
a
short while at least. Soon some new piece of equipment or tweak comes
along
and they are back to fine tuning their systems and probably get equal or
bigger kicks doing so. You might have to be careful to not catch the bug
yourself as I understand some musicians do get infected. The very fact
that
musicians, including yourself, are reading here appears to prove that
this
is true.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with wanting a high quality audio system
to enjoy music.

The shouldn't the be upgrading speakers, since that's what the evidence
clearly shows is the weakest area and the one that makes the biggest and
probably only difference, along with room EQ?

And frankly, you are simply speculating that people who are
"into" the hobby are constant, hopeless upgraders.

My experience with people who buy into the high end mythology is that they
ARE hopeless upgraders.

Many of us love music,
and stick with equipment for many years if it is musically satisfying.

Glad to hear it.


Speaking personally, before I upgraded to five channel three years ago, I
lived with a system that had a 20+ year old arm, cartridge and turntable,
a
25 year old preamp, an 8 year old power amp (and a 15 year old one before
that), a 10 year old CD system, a 20 year old tuner, and 13 year old
speakers. I remained an avid, interested audiophile as well as music
lover
despite the lack of upgrades....primarily because I had used and trusted
my
sense of "musicality" when I had made previous choices and was very, very
happy with the sound. I suspect there are many other audiophiles out
there
in situations similar to this.

Perhaps there are more of you than we know, but there certiabnly are those
endless tweakers and the mission of the high end magazines seems to be that
there is always something better coming down the pike, even though evidence
of better is sorely lacking.

Perhaps if more people spent some time reading the research that has been
done inot what is audible and invested in some digital EQ, there'd be a lot
less criticism of the high end and a lot more happy audiophiles.