Udiophiles are adherents of clean, comfortable sound and a fashionable design of sound path components. They are proud of their equipment, they know and appreciate its technical parameters. They love to invite friends and acquaintances to joint auditions. They use spectacular demo recordings, often using various trick devices: equalizers, reverbs, expanders, stereo width controllers, etc. They listen to music mostly in fragments and can be interrupted at any time to do something else. The existing equipment ceases to suit them over time, especially if some formal flaws are found in its sound. Audiophiles cannot put up with them, and, as a result, irritation builds up in them and they set off in search of other equipment. If it is not possible to change the system to a better (in their understanding) or more fashionable one, then the audiophiles cease to turn it on altogether - music as such is not their urgent vital need, but plays only a service role, providing material for demonstrating the sound capabilities of audio equipment. They perceive music rationally and discretely: they listen to how tops, bottoms are transmitted, how bells, brushes are reproduced, etc. But it is their passion for high-quality equipment that is the driving force behind the Hi-Fi and High End industry. For the music lover, the artistic and creative perception of music is an integral part of his life. He prefers to listen to music alone, often turning off door and phone calls. He listens to the whole piece of music, a random break is unpleasant for him. Such people adapt to the sound of their equipment, cease to notice its flaws. This is due to the special involvement that only music lovers can experience. They rarely change equipment, even when they can afford such expenses. There are many music lovers, owners of excellent High End systems that do not part with old phonographs and records. They hear that the intonational richness of old acoustic recordings is lost in the modern superanalog and even more so on the CD. If audiophilia (love of sound) is based on an intellectual analysis of sound (the cerebral cortex works), then melomania, like other mania, is based on subconscious (subcortical) processes. Such a person, besides his will, falls under the power of a musical image, which can cause him the widest range of emotions up to euphoria.
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