Mike
I wonder truly what is wrong with technical. Our hobby is heavily technical after all. a piano is all about vibes, an amp is not ... its purpose is not to produce music it is to
reproduce it .. a technical endeavor. It something is not frame ina some kind of technical terms how can you describe it? Think about your listening room for example. You did have to be exposed to the (technical ) fact that it has a given of measurements which define its dimensions and that said dimensions introduced some aberrations that needed to be dealt with in a technical , not vibe, fashion. As in anything there is some part of it that is art... Ask any person in IT there are people that treat programming like an "Art" and their programs reflect it... Apple must have a legion of those ... Yet the endeavor remains eminently technical. However much you claim of not being interested by things technical, the technical underpinning of your systems is , pardon the term
sound. That is not a "vibe" thing. Even vibrations, the real "vibes" are dealt in a fundamental fashion in your system ... So what is wrong with technical threads?
On that note I miss the participation of industries luminaries such as Sean Olive, Levantier, Dr Geddes, Tom Danley, Mark Seaton (he post one in a blue moon but his recent output is as scant as ice in the Sahara), Nyal Melior (Wonderful HTPC thread BTW thanks Nyal!!) et al. These people made this forum different IMHO.bringing hard real science to what we truly perceive. I remember having finally understood the need for superior power after reading a post by Tom Danley in which he explained that some common sound actually are much louder than the usual SPL measurements would suggest. That helped or Sean Olive articles on subwoofer. We do have some extremely knowledgeable people on the board and from time to time they chime in but it seems much less than before. Wayne Plufghaust is among those and we have people that are just heavy-hitting enthusiasts on the technical side whose posts count has been stagnant..
And yes, we also have enthusiasts like you , like microstrip whose control of things technical is not to be underestimated although he tends to deny that side of him... We have jack and Gary Koh and Amir and Dallas Justice and mojave and ... several names I am forgetting right niow who marry the techical with what you call the vbes .. It would lessen the value of this WBF if it were all about vibes like the Asylum .. where you would see threads lke that .. I put a glass of wine on my speaker and it made the sound light .. followed by a chorus of wow.. same for me , did you try wiskey, etc ... Does
that truly help?
And we have an incredible resources of GREAT MUSIC posts a sticky called ... What's spinning tonight or such .. Technical? no! Vibes? ABSOLUTELY.. and of the greatest level
The hobby is technical, better embrace its true nature and enjoy it more
P.S there are a lot of "vibes" posts too from which one can pick and choose ... I miss the posts of Keith W bTW where is he. His takes on food was the real deal... And his love of Apple products is being missed too