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I Finally Clicked!-The Meaning and Importance of a Beginner Audiophile System
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<blockquote data-quote="User121314" data-source="post: 1068981" data-attributes="member: 16824"><p>I agree with some of what the OP has said.</p><p></p><p>There are a number of people I've met from the forum that have quietly built their systems to get to their happy place, and some of those systems are outstanding.</p><p></p><p>However, what the OP missed is the "gear-heads". Those folks who like equipment more than, dare I say it, the actual music the equipment is meant to reproduce!</p><p></p><p>Seen it often on the forum:</p><p>Forum member on a buy and sell and swap spree for a few months.</p><p>Whoa! This is the bees knees. END GAME SYSTEM!</p><p>Vanish from the forum for a month or so.</p><p>4 or 5 weeks later they're back, selling gear, buying gear.</p><p>Whoa! This is the bees knees. END GAME COMPONENT!</p><p>Vanish from the forum for a month or so.</p><p>Repeat ad infinitum.</p><p></p><p>To add, it also seems their music collection and/or playlists are limited. The same track/s, played over and over and over again, trying to find what they heard once (probably on someone else's system).</p><p></p><p>I do not have golden ears. Anything but. Firearms, motorcycles, V6's & V8's & loud music have caused permanent damage. I'm lucky if, in complete silence, I can hear above 14kHz, 12kHz being the max using headphones in a quiet room, around 10kHz using loudspeakers in the same quiet room.</p><p>Hearing ability (esp. higher frequencies) decreases as we age in any event, and is most often worse for men than women, so it is interesting to me to see people of around my age & up with "golden ears". I often wonder how much of it is really just confirmation bias.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="User121314, post: 1068981, member: 16824"] I agree with some of what the OP has said. There are a number of people I've met from the forum that have quietly built their systems to get to their happy place, and some of those systems are outstanding. However, what the OP missed is the "gear-heads". Those folks who like equipment more than, dare I say it, the actual music the equipment is meant to reproduce! Seen it often on the forum: Forum member on a buy and sell and swap spree for a few months. Whoa! This is the bees knees. END GAME SYSTEM! Vanish from the forum for a month or so. 4 or 5 weeks later they're back, selling gear, buying gear. Whoa! This is the bees knees. END GAME COMPONENT! Vanish from the forum for a month or so. Repeat ad infinitum. To add, it also seems their music collection and/or playlists are limited. The same track/s, played over and over and over again, trying to find what they heard once (probably on someone else's system). I do not have golden ears. Anything but. Firearms, motorcycles, V6's & V8's & loud music have caused permanent damage. I'm lucky if, in complete silence, I can hear above 14kHz, 12kHz being the max using headphones in a quiet room, around 10kHz using loudspeakers in the same quiet room. Hearing ability (esp. higher frequencies) decreases as we age in any event, and is most often worse for men than women, so it is interesting to me to see people of around my age & up with "golden ears". I often wonder how much of it is really just confirmation bias. [/QUOTE]
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