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Audiophiles that never actually listen to their system!!??

DaveVoorhis said:
Are your favourite online news channels...
  • Focusing on messages about how we can all work together, create better relationships, foster contribution and effective collaboration across diverse groups, and develop cohesive and encompassing sustainable strategies to make life better for everyone?
  • Or, are they focusing on messages about how the Other Side are lying/stupid/evil/traitorous anti-<Insert Your Country Here> destroyers who are doing Very Bad Things That Must Be Stopped, and the @£$%!! bastards must be routed out, kept out, and pushed back?
Which of these does your favourite online news channel most closely resemble?
Which of these makes you feel angrier and inclined to do something? [1]

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[1] And the thing you'll probably do -- because you can't do what you really want to do, i.e., take care of the @£$%!! bastards -- is click on an ad. Or read more and then click on an ad. Welcome to Sales-Driven Media Behaviour Manipulation 101.
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I only used news channels as an example,ive given up watching any news on TV and Youtube, the way politics has dominated news with both sides news storys making me depressed as hell from constant negativity ive given up watching news,i honestly believe it's unhealthy,if i watch any news vids any more its usually those feel good storys where a pooch rescues a baby from drowning ,or where a contractor replaces an old womans Air Conditioning for free because shes broke.
 
Next you're gonna tell me that people own garages full of exotic hot rods and never drive them...

(Sorry if that sarcastic analogy had already been used, I didn't have a chance to read all 11 pages before it burst out of me)
 
CoogarXR said:
Next you're gonna tell me that people own garages full of exotic hot rods and never drive them...

(Sorry if that sarcastic analogy had already been used, I didn't have a chance to read all 11 pages before it burst out of me)
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Or H-D folk that are satisfied living the possibility of living the dream, just having it available and polished.
 
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i am also into motorcycles. Lots of guys have bikes and mod the crap out of them but don't ever really use them. There's a them for this. It's called farkeling. It's the act of adding accessories to motorcycles. I am a little like this too. I have a couple of bikes that I work on but don't really ride. I just like them.

I don't see any harm in it. Audio isn't an easy business and if people are buying and keeping business afloat with their own money then who cares? Sometimes audio is like the high end watch business. It's just about prestige ownership but someplace in Switzerland somebody's kid of going to college on that crazy watch money. Just like someone is going to college on that Krell amp that was only ever turned on for half an hour.
 
GChief said:
Merrimack-Webster says:

Definition of audiophile: a person who is enthusiastic about high-fidelity sound reproduction.

I guess I don’t fit, while I would rather listen to a great system I am perfectly content with whatever the situation requires, waiting for a plane: iPhone and IEMs streaming Tidal, camping or at the beach my crappy little BOSE BT speaker or my main system at home. I love the music no matter which.

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I think it’s more than that. I think being an audiophile is like being in a marriage. Endless variables and all about compromise. The journey of building your system and picking curtain components because that’s what you think would sound the best at the time, and learn from it. Trial and error. I don’t have $30,000 for a pair of speakers. But knowing what works and what does not from experience and research of box design speaker parameters Building your crossovers with metallized polypropylene capacitors And solo inductors, or what ever you decide to go with. Might want to try a assortment of crossover brands because they all sound different in a side by side comparison all thing being equal. Anyways you get my point. The people that throw money at it and don’t put in the work are the audioPhiles that don’t listen to there systems I think. Having the passion and drive to put in the work and having the money to throw at it ?well that’s my idea of heaven!!!
 
Jamestron69 said:
I think it’s more than that. I think being an audiophile is like being in a marriage. Endless variables and all about compromise. The journey of building your system and picking curtain components because that’s what you think would sound the best at the time, and learn from it. Trial and error. I don’t have $30,000 for a pair of speakers. But knowing what works and what does not from experience and research of box design speaker parameters Building your crossovers with metallized polypropylene capacitors And solo inductors, or what ever you decide to go with. Might want to try a assortment of crossover brands because they all sound different in a side by side comparison all thing being equal. Anyways you get my point. The people that throw money at it and don’t put in the work are the audioPhiles that don’t listen to there systems I think. Having the passion and drive to put in the work and having the money to throw at it ?well that’s my idea of heaven!!!
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There are some who don't "throw money at it" and do "put in the work" and yet don't listen much to their systems either so...

It's certain components, not curtain components.
Welcome to AudioKarma.
 
Jamestron69 said:
I think it’s more than that. I think being an audiophile is like being in a marriage. Endless variables and all about compromise. The journey of building your system and picking curtain components because that’s what you think would sound the best at the time, and learn from it. Trial and error. I don’t have $30,000 for a pair of speakers. But knowing what works and what does not from experience and research of box design speaker parameters Building your crossovers with metallized polypropylene capacitors And solo inductors, or what ever you decide to go with. Might want to try a assortment of crossover brands because they all sound different in a side by side comparison all thing being equal. Anyways you get my point. The people that throw money at it and don’t put in the work are the audioPhiles that don’t listen to there systems I think. Having the passion and drive to put in the work and having the money to throw at it ?well that’s my idea of heaven!!!
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Maybe :dunno:. But that is the definition from the dictionary.

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I'm one of those people. I have a dedicated room with gear that's the best I can reasonably build or purchase. I spent most of my life getting to where it's at. Know what I don't have now? Time. My stereo in my living room is a bit more pedestrian but still consists of excellent gear, and gets used daily.

It seems silly to me to paint with such a broad brush because someone may have different priorities/commitments than you do.
 
spark1 said:
So you are not enthusiastic about high quality sound (music) reproduction?
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Oh I am, that's all it is to me, I could careless about how I get there. I was saying maybe to all the added personal criteria of that post :D
 
If a true audiophile hardly ever listens to his/her system then there's something wrong with it. Like $800 speaker wires with potatonium-plated dielectrics that don't sound any better than $8 wires or some similar catastrophic turn-off.
 
Pio1980 said:
Or H-D folk that are satisfied living the possibility of living the dream, just having it available and polished.
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Right up my alley,i havent been on site much because it's summer/fall & ive been riding the **** out of my Twin Cams ,these 2 are all polished up ready for bed after a ride,I've put just over 9,000 miles on the Fatboy and over 6,000 on the Road King this season alone,got T-Boned on my Evo Fatboy bagger 1st time i had it out this season so i had to take a few days off riding,i got the old " I didnt see you" BS and the cop wouldn't check her phone for texts at time of accident.
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