"I'm bored with HiFi'" I think this is hardly surprising, given that as a pastime it requires very little skill or on going involvement from the participant, it mostly involves opening your wallet and suffering the sales man, the rest is quite a passive activity.
Of course I like music, but HiFi doesn't involve the listener to do much hence the reward is small. Compare that to learning to play the piano or painting for art, its hard, but your progress however slow is rewarding and requires the participant to put some effort in.
I'm not sure I tend to agree.
I think your refering to the people who blindly just throw together whatever fits/told fits with no knowledge or experience nor even an interest in hifi.
Usually the type that is missing out on the exponential joy a decent hifi can bring to music.
This isn't a forum that seems to attract such a participant.
Learning is key to finding such a hifi and in view of keeping this post shorter I won't go to in depth of all the things one needs to learn when building such a tailored hifi to suit their preferences as it's so long and ever growing with new technologies like the advent of room correction, new formats, technical specifications etc etc as if learning about what different types of amps, speakers, sub woofers, CDP, CD transports, DAB, Turntable's, Bluetooth receiver, Streamer, streaming platforms, DACS, Room acoustics, interconnects and dare I say it cables 😲😲 amongst SO many other things isn't enough.
Coincidentally I play a musical instrument and must admit I spend more time on hifi which holisticly contains learning more than what boxes do what.
I think that's mainly because the not so elusive "reward" you mention is much higher to me given that I will never be able to play the guitar as well as the people I can hear through my hifi.
I learned very early analogically speaking, that learning enough to build and set up a decent hifi "is like hearing a top class singer in comparison to throwing together whatever fits without any prior knowledge" is like hearing the local drunk at the pub karaoke.
As a kid as mentioned many times via other posts🥱🥱 my father would repair much much "hifi" and pass it through the loft hatch to me at 12yrs old.
It caused a massive learning curve of whats what.
I learned from watts to ohms law to impedance and all the things in-between.
It made it acutely apparent the exponential gain in enjoyment a decent tailored hifi could bring to music when it's done right.
I was hearing parts of songs that were inaudable before in depths and richness that astounded me
It led to me going through the loft hatch myself into my father's wonderland and learning to solder at 12 and carry out rudimentary electrical repairs on almost anything.
That furthered into repairing just about anything hifi/electrical although still with some instruction from my father by 14 which is when I picked up my first "sound lab" djay decks and mixer.
I took to mixing very well introducing a third deck and sampler I'd repaired then I fell in love with music mixing aswell.
By 15 I was noticed at the local club of all places when I was asked/aloud to step in for 15 mins and takeover at the local rave 😱 set as a friend had told the DJ coincidentally his father i was the one making the mix tapes everyone was listening to at school.
See back then in the early 90s djaying/mixing (The Old Way) was a very involving art not like the cold uninvolved software of today in which everything is done for you at the push of a button turning even the tone deaf into David Guetta
One had to learn to match the different beats and the art of overlap etc, when to mix in and fade out.
How to sample correctly at the right cues.
What various pitch and speed is needed to mix in with the right "HI/high,MIDS/middle TOP/treble"
All whilst patching in a third deck which at times it's very tricky.
I even went on to djay for a second income for awhile.
All if the above is just a drop in the ocean of what can be learned within the world of hifi.
It's Absolutely all connected "within" the same hobby I have and that's hifi where it all comes together.
It would be very naive to think that hifi is just a salesman result and quote "requires very little skill or on going involvement from the participant, it mostly involves opening your wallet and suffering the sales man, the rest is quite a passive activity"
It would be like saying a guitar player just plucks strings attached to a plank of wood from memory.
Your right anyone can throw together a hifi with reviews etc or a recommendation based on someone else's listening preferences thus leading to the wrong kit as nothing substitutes learning.
I see the type of people that just point and buy whatever is on the shelf with a shiny sticker I won't be so presumptuous to say that's what hifi is to you.
I've seen many a sonic disappointment through people using such methods.
Some love music that much it becomes a route to all things hifi simply because they want to experience it as best as they can.
Not unlike a car lover looks to find a better car to experience driving better.
The "ongoing participation" mentioned is ever present, I'm 40 now and still learning, it's room acoustics at the minute as I have a odd shaped room.
Ahhhhh the world of hifi 🤗
It doesn't have to be expensive and salesman's pushed exercise like many insinuate if a knowledge and understanding is formed by learning as with anything else.
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