Given what you've written here today, you may not have worked "blue," but you are toying at the edges by innuendo - magenta, purple?
Dave
As Guttman said in
The Maltese Falcon: "Here's to plain speaking and clear understanding."
Anyone who can be bothered to post on an audio website after reading an article about hi-end audio is ( to at least some extent ) a maximizer. From there it's just a question of willingness and wherewithall...
Anyone participating on an audio board like AC isn't really a "minimizer" in that we don't consider an iPod to be our main reproduction system for music. We care too much to settle for that. We may take different roads to arrive at our destination, but we all share the destination - a system that reproduces music in all it's beauty and power in a way that does it justice. We don't all see the details the same way but in terms of the ultimate goal, that's largely irrelevant other than to provide a reason to converse ( and sometimes argue ) about the means to the end.
Because we care.
And because we care, we are
willing to spend our hard-earned money to achieve this mystical "perfect system" which is the carrot at the end of the stick which many among us never seem to actually clamp our teeth around. How much of our resources we can devote to this varies - that's the
wherewithall part. And again, it's largely irrelevant. We do what we can. But regardless of our individual levels of wherewithall,
we do it because we care.
And even those of us who have gotten a taste of that carrot and decide to call it a meal and push away from the table really aren't "satisfiers" - unless you decide to plunk the whole works down in the Trading Circle and get that iPod. Until you do, once you're a Jet, you're a Jet all the way...
Can't believe it took five replies....
D.D.
...for someone to go for the low-hanging fruit offered by a thread title which was King Harvest in terms of low-hanging fruit. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Even the low-hanging fruit shouldn't be left to spoil - the more laughs the better otherwise we all end up just ranting at each other about the minutia of "The Hobby" and lose the sense of joy that music should instill in all of us.
Just so that we're clear, Dave.
D.D.
