There's a time to put on the proverbial overalls
Bonzo, I couldn't disagree w/you more. You've travelled far and wide to reach your conclusion, while me and many others have carefully upgraded to get net gains in musical enjoyment. Of course others are on the way to continual heartache and frustration too. I think it's a little rich of you to just characterise the whole hobby as navel gazing and pointless "my brand is better than yours". Just because you've spent countless hours travelling and listening to come to believe in this doesn't mean it's true. You certainly believe your Lampi DAC to be superior to anything out there. I don't see you giving up on it anytime soon, despite you believing contests btwn brands are distractions.
Nothing like a born again anti-audiophile.
But I'm sure we can all agree music is often best heard live.
Still stating opinions as fact, Bonzo? I don't know what you're talking about when you assert AS FACT that box swapping is in the service JUST of audiophilia, not actually better sound. For some it may be one upmanship, careless spending, obsessive dissatisfaction, inability to sit still. For me and many others, it's been a necessary method to get to vastly better sound, and then parallel spending on tweaks to max out impvd sound potential.
So please don't label what me and others have done as in the service of the hobby ALONE w/no discernible benefits. My spending really allows me more than ever to be in the moment. That's tangible end results, not clinging to just a hobby or label/lifestyle choice.
And if this isn't your intention w/your thread/comments, maybe you should be less ambiguous.
Spirit, you are having a spirited argument that has no relation to what I am saying. You interpreted 'subservience', I never even implied it. I just said these are different hobbies. Audiophilia (box swapping, being geeky about gear, demoing) is a different hobby than music, though related to it. I never used the words subservience and most of what you have written up there, I cannot relate to. I never suggested my path is superior to yours, not on this thread anyway. If you think I think so due to offline arguments, I suggest we keep that offline.
In fact , what you are saying in your message is that you agree with me, because you love listening to music on youtube, in the vehicle, on your GF's system, and then you have a different hobby to upgrade your home system to it's max.
Maybe you should change your user id to spirit of audiophilia, or just plain Spirited, given the way you argue. Take it all in good spirits
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