ooh.. said:Plenty of music lovers have no interest in Hifi, so it's not just a love of music. Is it?
Its certainly not a love for music kinda thing. But good recordings bring out the best in your hi-fi so you naturally care about the recording of the song. I personally hate it when a song I really like has a bad recording, I end up listening to it in my car and not my hi-fi. The hi-fi is reserved for purer stuff, for me at least. I love music, I've played the guitar for more than half of my life. I also love hi-fi, the first thing I do after work is go home and play some songs before I do anything else. That doesn't mean that my love for music and my love for hi-fi coincide all the time, like I said I do not play rubbish sounding recordings on my hi-fi, simply because I don't enjoy them. So maybe I'm more of a hi-fi lover than a music lover :silenced:ooh.. said:Plenty of music lovers have no interest in Hifi, so it's not just a love of music. Is it?
ooh.. said:Plenty of music lovers have no interest in Hifi, so it's not just a love of music. Is it?
They must have deep pockets to justify the cost of a great HiFi if they're not into music. No point having a brilliant-sounding HiFi if you're not really into any kind of music.Ajani said:you can love hifi and not really be into music.
ooh.. said:Plenty of music lovers have no interest in Hifi, so it's not just a love of music. Is it?
SpursGator said:It's hard to imagine someone who does not like driving spending a lot of money on a car.
MajorFubar said:They must have deep pockets to justify the cost of a great HiFi if they're not into music. No point having a brilliant-sounding HiFi if you're not really into any kind of music. The only other reason I can think of is that you would need to believe it had status-symbol qualities, a bit like how Victoria Beckham was seen wielding a Leica M9 camera a couple of years ago. I genuinely doubt she has even the slightest idea how to work it. But it's a Leica, init. For me, my love of music is first. A decent HiFi helps to immurse me into the music more vividly. Now I was of the opinion that most HiFi people were the same as me...is that an incorrect assumption?Ajani said:you can love hifi and not really be into music.
CJSF said:unfortunately I now know that my dyslexic problems made learning to playing an instrument virtually impossible.
I can design, build and fly racing aircraft,
The_Lhc said:CJSF said:unfortunately I now know that my dyslexic problems made learning to playing an instrument virtually impossible.
Really, I wasn't aware of any correllation between the two?
CJSF said:The_Lhc said:CJSF said:unfortunately I now know that my dyslexic problems made learning to playing an instrument virtually impossible.
Really, I wasn't aware of any correllation between the two?
Reading and memory, both are affected, created massive frustration when young, especially in the 50's and 60;s, when the problem was not recognised and those affected were considered 'thick D's', bottom of the bottom class . . . this affects some areas of my learning capacity massively. Sad, as my parents spent much time and money trying to push water uphill where I was concerned, I spent many hours kicking and screaming in those days
The_LHC said:Do you know Chris Gold?
My flying was in the world of model radio controlled aircraft. I am self-taught, I was designing, building and flying aircraft by the time I was 11. Radio control came when I was 21, Kathy my late wife bought me a 4 channel RC outfit, a box of resistors, PC boards and wires that I had to put together myself! That led to me learning to design, build and fly high performance aerobatic gliders, onto powered aerobatics and then closed circuit 'Reno Style' racing planes capable of 175mph out of a 7cc motor! I have had 2 racing plane plans published in a national magazine, I believe still available? Had my own regular 2000 word column in said mag., for 3 years in the 90's.
Despite the designing, building, flying skills, no one picked up what was wrong until my then fiancé, Kathy, worked it out. She and my parents, with my cooperation, started a long process of reversing what the previous years has set in my mind. It appears, I still suffer with frustration/depression of those formative years today.
The point is, in hifi terms, I'm a thinker, I sit down and work through, in my way . . . can it '?' be done better or different to good effect? Which is why I come up with solutions to things that no one sees as a problem . . . thats the hifi mind of 'CJS'. How that relates to my love of simple music . . . I prefer the basic stuff, or what I see as basic, as I have no practical musical experience? Large orchestras, loud distorted rock bands . . . I struggle with, they often are nothing more than a cacophony to me. Simple solo voice, solo guitar, church pipe organ, chamber music, jazz etc., I seem to be able to relate to . . . ???
The_Lhc, does that tell you anything . . . in the outside world, totally mixed up??? frustrated . . . ??? and yet in my own world, I feel I have and do achieve . . . :?
The_Lhc said:Why does that stop you from just picking up a guitar and having a strum though?
"No" would have done...
chebby said:I'm going to take the title literally when it says "the quality of sound reproduction". For me it's only partly about the music.
Most of the time I am more interested in the quality of the (spoken) human voice from radio, iTunes, iPlayer, DVDs, TV and Blu-ray.
The all Naim seperates system I had for two years was excellent (possibly too good) but locked up too much space, too much light, too much expense and it always had it's best/optimal performance lurking just beyond the - relatively moderate - volume levels I typically enjoy. It was 'needy' and a pig to clean and sprouted more cables than I could tolerate (and it was ugly but many will disagree with any mention of aesthetics concering hi-fi and besides, my wife thought it looked good!)
I spent some £2400 on it in total (Naim amp and CD player ex-dem from local Audio-T + Naim tuner and speakers mint & second-hand) and sold it all for a shade over £1900.
All told, I got away lightly losing only £250 per year for two years use. (The same system would now cost just over £4000 brand new.)
To replace it I bought a Marantz M-CR603 for just under £500 (with AirPlay) based entirely on it having the right functionality, connectivity, size and looks. (Shameful!) I ordered it without any audition at the dealers or at home. (Look away PP.)
I subsequently added a great TV, an iPhone 4 and (recently) a Humax PVR and a new Sony Blu-ray player. It's a lovely, small, easy to use, great sounding system that I wish I could have bought 10 years ago. It's flexible and great fun too.
Of course there is much out there that sounds better and I no longer care. If Marantz produced a 'luxury' KI Signature version of my M-CR603 (with polished teak sides) I could be tempted to upgrade But this is the most 'right' system I have bought since 1996 and will be staying right here for a long time.
I might be trying out some PMC DB1is, but if they don't work with the M-CR603 then they go back, not the Marantz!