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Politics and hi-fi

With hindsight, the whole hifi 'thing', with its upgrade ladders, interminable tweaking and audiophilia nervosa was a bit bonkers anyway. 'It's all about the music', we'd claim, as we cluttered up our living spaces with ever-increasing boxes and wires.
 
Joe Hutch said:
... the whole hifi 'thing', with its upgrade ladders, interminable tweaking and audiophilia nervosa 'It's all about the music', we'd claim, as we cluttered up our living spaces with ever-increasing boxes and wires.
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That sums up everything I love about it!
 
Joe Hutch said:
With hindsight, the whole hifi 'thing', with its upgrade ladders, interminable tweaking and audiophilia nervosa was a bit bonkers anyway. 'It's all about the music', we'd claim, as we cluttered up our living spaces with ever-increasing boxes and wires.
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An thats just the half of it. A phone and a one box solution? These kids dont know what they are missing!

Ive been served with a divorce petition. The mad prof :D

I think its all been covered very well on this thread. The times they are a changing
 
merlin said:
I would say that very few can afford to live (around here in the SE of England) in a home large enough and detached enough to truly consider enjoying a big pair of loudspeakers playing their favourite music at levels that make the expense worthwhile Tony.
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This is a very good point. The age at which a person / couple can get their own house is becoming significantly older. I'm 28 and I know 3 other couples between 26 and 33 years. They all live in flats where a room filling music system would probably cause issues with neighbours. Every one of them works a full time job so wouldn't have much time for a non-portable system. Only the oldest couple own their flat (have a mortgage). Getting one's own home is a serious issue for todays youth and it has nothing to do with needing to work harder!

Edit: Actually there is one exception; my brother and his wife just bought their first house. They are both early 30's, but both are very highly educated / qualified and earn well above average wage.
 
Minstrel, there's both purple and pink accents going on in that photo there. I think that has WAF covered. As far as I can see, no problem at all.
 
I can remember the day I said to a hi fi salesman as a young person ..... "You know...people might find me strange...but I personally think , a really good Hi Fi system is more sexy than anyone seeking to have a wife". I never changed from that opinion. Today I have three full sized Hi Fi systems in my main listening room. besides (plus) having a stack of new boxes of very respectable full size high current Hi Fi amps / speakers/ tuners/ CD players -some still in boxes (plus more arriving) waiting to be to assembled and somehow integrated and accommodated around the house.

True Hi Fi enthusiasts today- are being lead into doubt about their interest, by forever seeing -quickly changing "compressed miniaturization gadgets or all-in one type convenience fads", that play 'noise' . Totally incapable of reproducing - the real depth / scale /size and dynamics of musical performances - as recorded. That is, to feel the visceral physical slam that musical crescendos produce in big orchestral and epic works - if the written Music Score itself , demands it . Where days later, if one has such an experience , it stills musically burns in one's brain as an 'private special event', one had.
I fear, we are seeing a generation of 'computerized sensory zombies' being developed. Just take a look anytime on some public commuter vehicle and notice the large percentage of passengers...not sitting in what should be / and once was 'relax - free time looking about at the pasting surroundings and privately thinking......instead , feverishly flicking through their phones and computer gadgets
Catering to this market, we then have manufacturers creating hideous "Bozo" matchboxes on ridiculous towering stilts/ or mistaken mod - mind boggling 'new wave patio- styled "Bo & Bo gram" speakers' so revolting in looks..one immediately would want to drop-kick them into the nearest pool as floatable dummies / 'sound- bars' and the like ....many trying to defy the Laws of Physics regarding Sound, in homes with doll -house dimensions. Countering this fact - perhaps by also - desperately - wiring up the various rooms with devices that offer non - descript 'server -programmed musick' as if homes are but like .... joined sections of connecting elevator cubicles .
 
Minstrel SE said:
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An thats just the half of it. A phone and a one box solution? These kids dont know what they are missing!

Ive been served with a divorce petition. The mad prof :D

I think its all been covered very well on this thread. The times they are a changing
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The heartening sight of a serious - in - earnest "means business" form of spaghetti ....that can only thrill any true hi fi enthusiast.
 
Joe Hutch said:
With hindsight, the whole hifi 'thing', with its upgrade ladders, interminable tweaking and audiophilia nervosa was a bit bonkers anyway. 'It's all about the music', we'd claim, as we cluttered up our living spaces with ever-increasing boxes and wires.
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If truth be told - Hi Fi was and still is usually seen as "secret men's' business".
How many women have any of us experienced, that went about -raving about the sound equipment they own? Instead, we have heard all the "to please the wife" accommodation stories -to keep the peace in married households. Persuading.... 'wives, that vases with flowers and water do not go on top of speakers' / that NO!....those speakers will NOT perform as well in that so called -more convenient living room spot, she picked out'...etc etc.
 
James Evans said:
Minstrel, there's both purple and pink accents going on in that photo there. I think that has WAF covered. As far as I can see, no problem at all.
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Yep its a rainbow of fun :) Its the sort of pottering about I enjoy at the moment. The racks have rear access :) Im usually quite good but it needs a dusting at the back there.

Im not really bothered about minimalism. I thin it down when Im good and ready.
 
Lemme see now, politics and hifi; not a lot about the politics so far, so my take is:

Hifi with blue lights = Conservative

Hifi with red lights = Labour

Hifi with green lights = obvious, and

Hifi with other/mixed colours = Lib. Dem., not really gelling with anything.

Never thought of myself as Lib Dem, but there y'go.....:)
 
Music freak said:
If truth be told - Hi Fi was and still is usually seen as "secret men's' business".
How many women have any of us experienced, that went about -raving about the sound equipment they own? Instead, we have heard all the "to please the wife" accommodation stories -to keep the peace in married households. Persuading.... 'wives, that vases with flowers and water do not go on top of speakers' / that NO!....those speakers will NOT perform as well in that so called -more convenient living room spot, she picked out'...etc etc.
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The role of women in hifi is two-fold:

a) to be draped over equipment (steady now!) in hifi advertisements

b) to 'not normally notice these things' but to nevertheless be amazed at the improvement wrought by the latest wire/stand/component change
 
Mike Reed said:
Lemme see now, politics and hifi; not a lot about the politics so far, so my take is:

Hifi with blue lights = Conservative

Hifi with red lights = Labour

Hifi with green lights = obvious, and

Hifi with other/mixed colours = Lib. Dem., not really gelling with anything.

Never thought of myself as Lib Dem, but there y'go.....:)
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I'm basically all Labour upstairs and mostly Tory downstairs, though with a bit of LibDem and Green.
 
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