Læste lige et indlæg på Stereophile. Han undrer sig over folk som harceler over hi-fi og high-end udstyr på hi-fi forums. Det i selv selv afføder nogle interessante tanker fra ham. Men jeg vil lige fremhæve en god pointe omkring hvorfor vi er nogen som har brugt et pænt beløb på udstyr, high-end el. i mit tilfælde, hi-fi.
...this... can be said of any hobby that, by its very nature, requires the flame of obsession to keep it going. That flame doesn't devalue that hobby's central purpose, which in our case is to use really cool audio gear to turn recordings into living, breathing performances that have the power to steal us away from the present.
Og hvorfor vi er flere som har mulighed for at få gode musikoplevelser uden en direktørløn.
Seeing the prices of audio equipment rise in thousand-buck bounds does not ring true with the hobby I fell in love with 30 years ago. What does ring true is the dichotomy that can be found at the other end of the price spectrum: the insuppressible proliferation of audio gear that keeps sounding better at prices more of us can afford. It's those products that are our hobby's best chance of growing in popularity.
