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Sometimes, says James from HiFi Wigwam, being an audiophile feels less like a hobby than having a weird illness, like obsessive-compulsive disorder or something: you know what you're doing is a bit daft, but you can't stop yourself.
"It's the audiophile's biggest fear, isn't it?" grins James, the immensely affable founder of HiFi Wigwam, an online forum that begat the show. "They die and then their wives sell their hi-fi equipment for what they told them it cost."
Very nicely written article. My favorite line was: [quote link=topic=157227.msg1682910#msg1682910 date=1524846282]
Interesting reading, the only speaker that my second wife liked was a Carver Amazing that continue stored in my bedroom ((, though she had a exacerbated pleasure by luxury travels, at least audio equipment do not become dust after the end of the trip.
Thanks for the laugh. I love this comment. It's perfect, but my wife probably sees your wife's point of view more clearly. So, I laughed, but the truth is that my wife has been incredibly tolerant of my craziness over the years.
"If your article is to have any journalistic validity at all," he says, thumping the table for emphasis, "it's important to impress upon people that if you run around listening to music on one of these" – he stabs at my iPhone – "with headphones the size of a pea, the price for that is very considerable in terms of your musical enjoyment and understanding. And then, if you think about music developing over the next 100 years in order to satisfy the requirements of things like this" – another disgusted look at the iPhone – "then we're going to end up with music that's absolutely inane and useless."We've already been there for decades.
BTW, the sound of a good lossless recording, played through a Dragonfly or comparable, through, say, my SE535's, sounds better than anything I was getting out of my system 2-30 years ago (imaging excepted).He's right though (and so are you); 98% of todays popular music is unlistenable crap, the musical equivalent of Wonder Bread. It'll only sound worse the better the system you put it on. But a properly-fed mobile system with quality pieces would surprise probably even him.
BTW, the sound of a good lossless recording, played through a Dragonfly or comparable, through, say, my SE535's, sounds better than anything I was getting out of my system 2-30 years ago (imaging excepted).He's right though (and so are you); 98% of todays all popular music throughout history is unlistenable crap, the musical equivalent of Wonder Bread. It'll only sound worse the better the system you put it on. But a properly-fed mobile system with quality pieces would surprise probably even him.
