Interesting. It's really identified what I think most audiophiles are after: perfection. When you change a system and you notice an improvement, you want another improvement, then another, then another.
Audiophilia is an open-ended improvement quest - the movie describes the enormous sums of money that can be consumed in the pursuit. It's my opnion that the biggest improvements are made at the lower end of the scale and that the improvement gain in the upper reaches of the equipment scale becomes smaller and smaller with larger and larger amounts of money required, but that's an opinion which could start a flame war in the audiophile forum. Unfortunately I do not have the cash or equipment to be considered an audiophile. I also don't believe many of the central tenets of the pursuit. It's a bit of obsessive-compulsive behavior. I'm guilty of it in another pastime - model railroading. Why do I like to make models of trains? I'm not sure, but I do. I believe it comes down to wanting to control the world around me and make it conform to my will (for example, no graffitti on my railcars even though it is prototypical!) I believe audiophilia follows similar lines and thinking, but the quest is for improvement and (unattainable) perfection. It's perhaps an attempt to create perfection and be able to control it in the midst of the chaos elsewhere. -- Mark Lanctot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30095 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
