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Interesting article but the you tube extract he refers to is rather strange. There is no way there are four and a half million CDs in there...I have at least three bookshelves that size stacked double rows of classical music and I am sure that my collection is only in the small thousand (of most western classical music).
I certainly do not view the buying of music as a hobby. It was essential to my enjoying my music whether by different artists, or period styles, or instruments, or transcriptions or vocal timbres etc etc. However I think of my buying audio as an affliction!
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I do spend my time of other fruitful and rewarding hobbies.....music just is a part of my life.
I certainly do not view the buying of music as a hobby. It was essential to my enjoying my music whether by different artists, or period styles, or instruments, or transcriptions or vocal timbres etc etc. However I think of my buying audio as an affliction!
)I do spend my time of other fruitful and rewarding hobbies.....music just is a part of my life.
...However I think of my buying audio as an affliction!
I do spend my time of other fruitful and rewarding hobbies.....music just is a part of my life.
Very well said Staxxx. it funny that in every post in any forum it is always the "many people who are equipment centric" are always the 3rd party and the person commenting only love the music
i guess the fact of the matter is that all of us are gear heads \ and thats why 99% of the threads in the forum are about the hardware and only 1 or 2 threads about the music
people who love only the music are listening to it even if it is on "crappy" earphones and enjoying it equally if not more
For me too, I like music and can also enjoy it equally either in my car or from my ipod or FM. but the very process/equipment for sound reproduction does give me a high.
..and audio is an "nice affliction" as I have more music that i can hear in my lifeltime if i heard it 4 hours a day. sadly i am able to spend only 4-5 hours a week on it these days...but that does not stop me from buying music
I find most albums, at least in the rock genre, to be appallingly inconsistent in terms of the quality of songs. I've often wondered if this is the reason why I and perhaps others have hundreds of albums that mostly gather dust and rarely if ever get played in their entirety.
if I were to pick songs that I really like to listen, it would probably be a hundredth of true total number of songs I own. Why do we even bother building a collection of CDs or vinyl? If we do so, let's admit that it is for the same reason why we spend so much money and energy on the equipment. Playing and listening to music is important but also secondary. The hobby is the real reason.
if I were to pick songs that I really like to listen, it would probably be a hundredth of true total number of songs I own. Why do we even bother building a collection of CDs or vinyl? If we do so, let's admit that it is for the same reason why we spend so much money and energy on the equipment. Playing and listening to music is important but also secondary. The hobby is the real reason.
Thad E Ginathom
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There does not have to be one reason for what we do.
I have always been a shopoholic, a bit of a gadget freak, and a music lover. Audio combines them all. The thing is, though, that once the music starts, assuming that this is a listening session (which is what we buy the stuff for) and not a testing or set-up session, then nothing else matters.
But does this mean that it is satisfying to listen to music, just because it is music, regardless of the quality of sound? Absolutely not. Curiously, I have found that one of the ironies of getting a little deafer, year by year, is that painful sound gets more painful. One example of the fallout is that I am almost boycotting two of Chennai's greatest sabhas, this season, because the sound systems that they use hurt. The couple of exceptions that I made only proved the point.
I have always been a shopoholic, a bit of a gadget freak, and a music lover. Audio combines them all. The thing is, though, that once the music starts, assuming that this is a listening session (which is what we buy the stuff for) and not a testing or set-up session, then nothing else matters.
But does this mean that it is satisfying to listen to music, just because it is music, regardless of the quality of sound? Absolutely not. Curiously, I have found that one of the ironies of getting a little deafer, year by year, is that painful sound gets more painful. One example of the fallout is that I am almost boycotting two of Chennai's greatest sabhas, this season, because the sound systems that they use hurt. The couple of exceptions that I made only proved the point.
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