[Sander deWaal]

(paul packer) said:


A question sometimes asked by those who aren't audiophile enthusiasts
(and don't understand the logic of spending thousands of dollars for a
decent system in the first place) is: Why do audiophiles want to spend
hours of their time simply listening to music played on their stereos or
surround systems?


To me, this is akin to asking "why breathe?"

Music is essential, is heals the mind, it lifts one up, it can express
feelings and emotions that are impossible to share otherwise.


Yours and Jenn's posts probably answer the question about as well as
it can be answered. But it's a fair question because the OP is right:
the concept of sitting for hours--more than 30 seconds, in
fact--listening intently to music is utterly foreign to today's or
even most of yesterday's generation.

Anyone recall a Peanut's cartoon about this from the 70's? Shroeder
has just bought a new LP and Lucy asks him what he's going to do with
it. "Just listen," he replies. "You mean you're going to dance to it?"
she asks. "No, just listen." "You mean walk around the room while you
listen?" "No, just listen." ....And so on until she's exhausted every
possible activity. When he continues to insist he's just going to
listen she walks off saying contemptuously, "That's the silliest thing
I ever heard of."


LOL!!

Just for the record (and for mr. JeffC) , I wasn't talking about
spending thousands of dollars on equipment, I was talking about
listening to music.

I build most of my audio stuff myself, the rest is bought used.
My cables are coax RG58U.
I would be surprised if the total cost of my primary system would
exceed $2000 (material costs).

I'm probably the rarest variety of the species called "audiophile" who
both likes to listen to music and enjoy building or tweaking his gear,
or repairing audio stuff for other people.

Oh, I'm a pianist, too. And I fix broken Citroens.
And I design pro audio stuff for a living.
And I do voice-overs for video documentaries and commercials.

Hey, judging from this list, I'm a pretty versatile guy, actually ;-)

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