You are both an audiophile AND a musician? I think I have read in some thread that you are a player.
Funny, I thought we musician types were rarely audiophiles. I have always been waaaaay more interested in the quality of the musician’s performance than the sonic quality of its playback.
>>You are both an audiophile AND a musician? I think I have read in some thread that you are a player.
Funny, I thought we musician types were rarely audiophiles. I have always been waaaaay more interested in the quality of the musician’s performance than the sonic quality of its playback.<<
HAHAHA! I was an Audiophile in the 70’s. Now I am into “retro HI-FI” from the 70’s.
I stopped being an audiophile when, one day, I looked at my absurdly eclectic record collection and realized that I did not enjoy listening to music. I enjoyed listening to cool equipment reproduce the music. That is when I changed.
Nowadays, if I am going to sit down and listen to music, It is vinyl. No, it does not sound as good as CD’s or even high bit-rate MP3’s, but it is all about the retro experience: Putting a needle in a groove and having to lift it off after 20 minutes.
Heck, I listened to about 20 distorted 45’s last night and loved it.
Oh, and about the eclectic record collection, I still have it, but I realized that a LOT of my records from the 70’s were bought on audio quality as opposed to musical quality. I have a lot o “direct to disk” recordings that amount to lousy music recorded very well. Now most of my stuff is music I really like, and usually recorded pretty well.
I was a gear-head in the audiophile days and now I am a gearhead in my musician days.
And to drive the last nail into my “audiophile” coffin. A TRUE modern audiophile thinks tube is best for HI-FI and records sound better than CD’s. I strongly disagree on both. :)