To the WBF brethren,
I am sure a lot of music lovers fall into both camps, where they have a choiceful great (large) physical music collection followed by a mega $ (hundreds of thousands) system.
But not all can afford such a system and possibly the music too.
So where does one draw the line (its pretty grey looking), where one would consider themselves more of a musicphile than an audiophile or vice versa?
What would be the actual rate of collecting music titles - 1 title a day or more, every couple of days, or weekly?
I guess time is a factor where one can sit down and listen to it all. I know I am squirelling away music hoping I can enjoy well past my retirement. There have been some discs that I have not touched since I have bought 10- 15 years back (picked up in travel, before the days of web sales), mainly due to family priorities. Before you know it, more purchases come through and you have lost focus of the previous purchases.
New formats, artists and music arrangements appear, and one wonders if you will keep continuing purchasing at the present rate of a bit over a title a day.
I have come across audiophiles who are so caught up in the system performance (which is not the wrong thing to do) that they forget all about the availability of music. After all this hobby is all about enjoying the artists and their performance. I wonder what sets them so radically apart in that direction where spend is all on hardware and hardly on software. Is that really an audiophile, and is this what the hobby is all about - just attaining top quality system performance?
So what should an average audio/musicphile spend in hardware and software as a % to each other? Where does the line cross?
I do understand that all this is dependent on the availability of listening time and spend affordability.
Look forward to your views.
Best,
Neville
I am sure a lot of music lovers fall into both camps, where they have a choiceful great (large) physical music collection followed by a mega $ (hundreds of thousands) system.
But not all can afford such a system and possibly the music too.
So where does one draw the line (its pretty grey looking), where one would consider themselves more of a musicphile than an audiophile or vice versa?
What would be the actual rate of collecting music titles - 1 title a day or more, every couple of days, or weekly?
I guess time is a factor where one can sit down and listen to it all. I know I am squirelling away music hoping I can enjoy well past my retirement. There have been some discs that I have not touched since I have bought 10- 15 years back (picked up in travel, before the days of web sales), mainly due to family priorities. Before you know it, more purchases come through and you have lost focus of the previous purchases.
New formats, artists and music arrangements appear, and one wonders if you will keep continuing purchasing at the present rate of a bit over a title a day.
I have come across audiophiles who are so caught up in the system performance (which is not the wrong thing to do) that they forget all about the availability of music. After all this hobby is all about enjoying the artists and their performance. I wonder what sets them so radically apart in that direction where spend is all on hardware and hardly on software. Is that really an audiophile, and is this what the hobby is all about - just attaining top quality system performance?
So what should an average audio/musicphile spend in hardware and software as a % to each other? Where does the line cross?
I do understand that all this is dependent on the availability of listening time and spend affordability.
Look forward to your views.
Best,
Neville