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Love for music shatter by highend equipment

Music is life, I rather be blind then deaf. It's pretty sad when I realize that my love for music was shatter by high-end equipment. I have friends that refuse to listen to music because it’s not coming from a high-end system. It’s ridiculous that throw away CDs because the record is not to their standard and they won't listen to it. As a result they listen to only a few CD over and over..and over..... They don't listen to the radio. They don't listen to the stereo in their car. What is going on, could it be the mind playing tricks. After all we are spending $50,000 on a system, and it could make us forget that, "Its all about listening to the music". I have to admit, this high end world is an enigma..

Danny
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agear
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This is an old thread but how apropos!  Hi end audio has an underlying dialectic that can prove to be confounding.  For too many (including myself), the equipment becomes an altar or idol and the music gets forgotten.  Add to this a baseline of OCDness in most audiophiles, and equipment becomes like crack and we the crack whores.  

I got into the hobby because of my passion for music as a kid and have clawed my way back using in part vintage equipment (Thorens table and Klipsch Cornwall Is).  What a strange journey, but the music is back.  I recently inherited my grandmothers vinyl collection (she was a classically trained pianist) and spinning vinyl is now an homage to my family.  That is the way things should be....  
agear
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Erik, rods84 insights are good but its more devilish than simply two different types of people.  I started as one (music lover), turned into another, and have now recovered and reverted back to my original self.   I know this may sound silly, but some equipment and manufacturers tend to promote audiophilia more than others.  
agear
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Lots of us used to drink Boones Farm wine back in the good old days. Nobody ever complained that it didn't taste very good or that it wasn't enjoyable.

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Lord have mercy.  Boone's Farm is the wine world's equivalent of a rusty mattress spring under electronics.  Good old days....meaning what?  Under the bridge in brown paper bags?

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