What is audio about?

What is audio about to you?

  • Sound Quality

    Votes: 46 59.0%

  • Music

    Votes: 70 89.7%

  • Supporting (or being part of a- sub)culture

    Votes: 5 6.4%

  • Engineering

    Votes: 16 20.5%

  • Community

    Votes: 7 9.0%

  • Lifestyle

    Votes: 6 7.7%

  • DIY

    Votes: 20 25.6%

  • Professional interest

    Votes: 5 6.4%

  • Other

    Votes: 7 9.0%
  • Total voters
    78
I checked Music (emotional connection), SQ, this Community, and DIY furniture, racks, and headphones (mods and one pair from scratch) and Other - kinetic sculpture eg turntables and RTR’s.
 
If I didn't love music, I never would have discovered this hobby.

As I got older, quality of sound became more important so that put me on the path for better equipment.

My strong interest in all things technical has me always looking up specs or circuit designs. I've modified my current amps and just built my first pair of speakers.
 
Apreggiator said:
What is audio about to you?
Genuinely curious what drive 'us'.
Of course the elements I mention can relate to each other.
Please tell more about your choices, context makes things richer!
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I chose sound quality. I consider "audio" to be about making the things I listen to more understandable and enjoyable. Music is part of that, but I also enjoy television shows, movies, ball games, radio dramas, podcasts, archived lectures, sermon tapes, etc. Many of the things I listen to were not recorded or preserved terribly well, so features that help overcome those difficulties (such as bass, treble, and balance controls; perhaps a mono switch and high and low filters) are appreciated. The fact that I live in an apartment, sharing walls, floors, and ceilings with others, means needing satisfying sound at low volume levels when listening with speakers, and without the deep bass that seems more prone to bleed through to those around me.
 
sqlsavior said:
Audio is about reproducing the sounds of a live locomotive in your living room. :smoke:

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A zillion years ago I had a record that was "Sounds of the US Air Force" and included many tracks like "B-52 taking off"..

I gave all my vinyl to my daughter several yeas ago now but I'll see if see can take a pic of the album cover so I can post it.
 
For me including all the reasons all people love music also comes from 2 other areas.

Since I was 10-12 I have had a fascination with speakers and I am still fascinated, that a vibrating diaphragm can vibrate different frequencies at the same time.
Not so much the writing of words but the fascination of how a song develops, developing a flow to the words with a direction all the things and sounds put in, all of it; It blows my mind as I have not been a party to its construction in my life. The brilliance of producers which most often great songs would not have been made.

I listen in fascination why this was stuck in here, that there, the many changes in direction a song can go thru I find it all immensely fascinating.

When I am listening, I obviously enjoy the music, the feelings, and all that everyone does, I am still being amazed at my speakers over there buzzing away doing weird **** and appreciating every bit of the composition and the how's and whys of the song I am listening to.

The first thing I think about when I hit whatever power button is the speakers, without them I couldn't appreciate music alone.

I just want it to sound good.
 
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I have always enjoyed music. In the last few years I seem to listen to it in a whole new way. It is like looking at a painting and thinking that’s a nice painting. Then looking at the painting and thinking look how they made that brush stroke, look at the shadow they created, look at the way they made that tree. I am fascinated by the creativity of some of these artists. It amazes me how they include all the nuances that they do. I sometimes feel they take me on a journey. I want to hear what they are trying to project. It can sometimes feel like a Disneyland ride. I think I am just burn’t out on tv. Sick of commercials and reality shows. I enjoy a good movie once in a while, but that’s about it. I also like tinkering with the equipment. I am always striving for the best sound quality in all of its shapes and forms, via clarity, bass, soundstage, and I want to hear every nuance. When I fish I am totally focused on fishing, when I golf I am totally focused on golfing, and when I am listening to music I am focused on the music. My wife will ask “ How do you relax? You get so involved in whatever you do.” For me it is relaxing because I can tune everything else out. I may have a disorder. I don’t know, but I enjoy it all. What was the question? Sorry, I tend to ramble.
 
Our stereo is supposed to make you feel the music, both inside and outside. Like any other hobby, you gotta spend to get the grins.

I have a few choice female tracks. I have no idea what they look like irl, but their voice touches me in ways my wife cant haha.

The music is the soundtrack of our lives. I love it. I love it more on hifi of course..
 
Apreggiator said:
What is audio about to you?
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Sometimes I like watching labels spinning on the old platter.

You Don't Love Me.
Off Junior Well's "Hoodoo Man Blues." Delmark Records. PA- 3014. Trio pressing (Japan). 1973.
Run-out: 〄 Ⓑ P A 301AA 111 ✱ [(katakana symbols]

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For me, it's just about hearing the music in a way that I have no complaints with. I'm always curious about different types of gear, technologies, etc, but not quite enough to feel that I need to own a bit of each just to check it out. If I buy something and it sounds great to me, then I can be done with the upgrade cycle on that particular component, I don't need to keep experimenting and keep throwing money at it. I'd rather spend money, a little bit at a time, buying music! Basically, audio is really just a vehicle to experience my music library with... It's all about the music for me!
 
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