Hi.
I love high end audio. Love it. But I don't always love the music that mostly gets talked about by the high end audio aficionados. You can look at my system and confirm that I use my dollars to buy and to build the kind of equipment that is worthy of the best recordings in the world. And I love listening to a good recording as much as the next person - up to a point. But I rarely ever hear a reviewer or a community appointed guru talk about or write about how the virtues of amp distortion or the energy in Slayer or the angry snarl of Black Flag or the bitter hatred of hypocrisy coming out the mouth of Jello Biafra or the raunch of AC/DC or the stoned out haze of Sleep or the fight in NWA - are best served by what a Koetsu Jade Platinum does or any other high end piece of audio engineering art. It's either Patricia Barber or measurements. Boring.
I like talking about what's best, but I love talking about who's the best Black Flag singer - Keith, Dez or Henry? And which one sounds best with a Dynavector XV-1s?
So...where my people at?
I love high end audio. Love it. But I don't always love the music that mostly gets talked about by the high end audio aficionados. You can look at my system and confirm that I use my dollars to buy and to build the kind of equipment that is worthy of the best recordings in the world. And I love listening to a good recording as much as the next person - up to a point. But I rarely ever hear a reviewer or a community appointed guru talk about or write about how the virtues of amp distortion or the energy in Slayer or the angry snarl of Black Flag or the bitter hatred of hypocrisy coming out the mouth of Jello Biafra or the raunch of AC/DC or the stoned out haze of Sleep or the fight in NWA - are best served by what a Koetsu Jade Platinum does or any other high end piece of audio engineering art. It's either Patricia Barber or measurements. Boring.
I like talking about what's best, but I love talking about who's the best Black Flag singer - Keith, Dez or Henry? And which one sounds best with a Dynavector XV-1s?
So...where my people at?