ezkc, I follow you completely, and certainly to most normal human beings, audiophiles are generally perceived as being extremists when it comes to what they do to achieve better sound (whether it be spending more money on gear, totally forgoing room aesthetics for better room treatments, using green magic marker around the edges of a collection of 2000+ CDs, etc). And yes, my wife will occassionally walk into my listening room and say "hey, that sounds better than yesterday!", and I'll say "its my new $1000 isolation platform on the preamp!", and she'll say "$1000 for that piece of plywood? You *&^%^*!!!". ;-)
But I will say that over the course of my journey as an audiophile, the way I listen to sound and music has changed quite a bit (maybe 10% ;-)). It's still about enjoying the music and the performance, but it's also now about appreciating tone and nuance in ways that I couldn't appreciate listening to a lesser system. My ears are more sensitive than they were 5 years ago, and now it hurts my ears to listen to my car stereo whereas I used to enjoy blasting it and doing my own personal "American Idol" as I drove down highways (and yes, I am using the same car from 5 years ago). :-) Anyways, I think we're all saying the same thing...that the value of differences are very personal, and that most audiophiles are nuts... :-) -- PhilNYC Sonic Spirits Inc. http://www.sonicspirits.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PhilNYC's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=837 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22301 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
