Why Don't More People Love Audio?

Roxy54, thank you for pointing out my typo and after rereading my post I have come to the conclusion you only got it partially right. There are two other errors. I misspelled Oreagonpapa user name and used the word knowledgeable instead of knowledge, I feel ashamed but at least you know my responses came from a person and were not computer generated.

Tubegroover, I think my career as a professor living in college communities best explains our somewhat different perspectives. The auditorium at my university where I taught for 32 years is positively awful. The university chose to use absorbent material all around the audience seating area and to use speakers to rebroadcast the music from the stage after going through an echo chamber. Furthermore the sides of the stage have broad panels of fluted concrete running floor to ceiling. I have found the only good seats are second row center so all you hear is near field.

I used to go to Chicago's loop often and sought ticket to hear performances there. This is my total experience with quality orchestral works. I also taught briefly in London and heard great performance there.

My other passion is jazz, and for this I have personal experiences over the years, but I long for hearing the old guys at their best.

So I went to Stage III to hear what I've missed. I must say that my guest has been rewarded best the last five years. It is very fragile. When all is right the involvement in the music, the emotion of the performers, and the thrill of realism, frequently cause me to want to jump up and yell bravo!

I should also say that reviewing causes me to often lose these experiences until my reference system settles down.

I appreciate your kind words as well as shared experiences. Thankfully my hearing is still quite good.

live music is my ultimate reference. But of course there is a continuum of quality and scale even with live sound. Live music consists of players venues and listeners just like home audio. All good sound have two things in common low noise and distortion. Other than that anything is possible. One either enjoys or not. The most useful metric for how good something sounds to an audiophile is probably hours listened. If one spends a lot of time listening and even goes out of ones way to and comes away satisfied. That is all one can hope for. Then there is always to what extreme one chooses or feels compelled to go in order to be satisfied. No right or wrong there. The best never comes easy.

Actually, to be completely fair, the sentence should have read,

"Anyway it is hard to imagine any Audiophile being completely satisfied with his current system yet few state they are."

Cheers!

Phd,
Just to be clear, I'm as far from a PhD as can be. I also make frequent spelling and grammatical errors. I think that I am overly sensitive to the frequent misuse of "there" and "their".
If you take notice, many posters use the two words incorrectly every day, most commonly using "there" when they mean "their". It's surprising how often it happens, even in printed reviews!
It's equally surprising that the error is most often made by posters whose first language is obviously English.