I can so identify with Donaudio.
Before I understood what I was doing, I too suffered the 90 second, "umm, okay...so how about those Red Sox..." several times.
This may drift a tiny bit from the original issue, but I feel people need to be questioned a tad about their relationship with music. If you find out the person owns no music at all and listens only to FM radio in the car for lack of any other activity available to them, do not waste your time.
The audience MUST have a passion for music in the first place, or it is useless.
There is also a big difference between a music lover and an audiophile.
A music lover hears a flaw in the reproduction of a piece music. They make a mental note to try to overcome it...then continue to enjoy the rest of the piece...and the rest of the nights listening.
An audiophile hears that same flaw in the reproduction of a piece of music. They get up and pull the stylus out of the groove right in the middle of the performance. Then they skip around from record to record, trying to find where it is most and least pronounced. They spend hours listening to the gear, not the music.
PS, in a real environment, you can hear the lady in the second row of violins scream because of the mouse...but not the mouse.
Be Well!
G
Before I understood what I was doing, I too suffered the 90 second, "umm, okay...so how about those Red Sox..." several times.
This may drift a tiny bit from the original issue, but I feel people need to be questioned a tad about their relationship with music. If you find out the person owns no music at all and listens only to FM radio in the car for lack of any other activity available to them, do not waste your time.
The audience MUST have a passion for music in the first place, or it is useless.
There is also a big difference between a music lover and an audiophile.
A music lover hears a flaw in the reproduction of a piece music. They make a mental note to try to overcome it...then continue to enjoy the rest of the piece...and the rest of the nights listening.
An audiophile hears that same flaw in the reproduction of a piece of music. They get up and pull the stylus out of the groove right in the middle of the performance. Then they skip around from record to record, trying to find where it is most and least pronounced. They spend hours listening to the gear, not the music.
PS, in a real environment, you can hear the lady in the second row of violins scream because of the mouse...but not the mouse.
Be Well!
G