Perhaps, you know you've been an "audiophile" for too long ...

[TBone]

when ... like I've recently done ... you demo a digital component and equate it's tonal characteristics to a cartridge.

tb1

 

[treitz3]

when...you go to a live performance and comment that the bass is not accurate enough...

Tom

 

[GaryProtein]

when...you go to a live performance and comment that the bass is not accurate enough...

Tom

Unfortunately most "live" music is amplified music and NOT really live at all. Club music is NOT live. Heck, what you hear at the Metropolitan Opera [or other opera houses] is amplified. Most "live" music is just performed in your presence but you DON'T hear their instruments or voices live, unamplified in a real space and probably hear them a lot WORSE at a performance than at home through your stereo from a good studio recording.

The Philharmonic IS "live" and not amplified. That is what you need to use as a reference.

 

[treitz3]

Hehehe....Gary, I know this. I have actually been to a live and unamplified street band to where a fellow audiophile commented to me, "The bass isn't accurate enough". He was actually comparing the live musical event with his system when, in fact, it should be the other way around. I was honestly speechless. Most of the amplified venues I have been at, I could see where he would be coming from but from live and unamplified music?

I just shut my mouth, smiled and enjoyed the music.

Tom

 

[Soundproof]

You know you're an "audiophile" when you're using snide remarks to put down perfectly good components that you have upgraded beyond.

 

[es347]

..when you state with conviction that "it's all about the music" and your nose lengthens

 

[MylesBAstor]

Unfortunately most "live" music is amplified music and NOT really live at all. Club music is NOT live. Heck, what you hear at the Metropolitan Opera [or other opera houses] is amplified. Most "live" music is just performed in your presence but you DON'T hear their instruments or voices live, unamplified in a real space and probably hear them a lot WORSE at a performance than at home through your stereo from a good studio recording.

The Philharmonic IS "live" and not amplified. That is what you need to use as a reference.

So are the South American pan pipe groups in the subway! Well, there's a little echo added

 

[treitz3]

.....when after spending thousands of dollars on an upgrade and after hearing just one more previously undetected note, instantly justifies the price of admission.....

 

[GaryProtein]

So are the South American pan pipe groups in the subway! Well, there's a little echo added

I agree, as they are outside the Marriott Marquis on 45th St. but only when they aren't using their battery powered amps on the street.

 

[TBone]

when...you go to a live performance and comment that the bass is not accurate enough...

Tom

I confess, (sigh) I've done that ... relatively recently in fact ... at a festival ... most of the bass I heard was the raised stage resonating ...

tb1

 

[audioguy]

When you actually believe the marketing hype of some manufacturer, purchase their product, get it home, put it in your system and the first word out of your mouth is: "whoops"

 

[microstrip]

When you actually believe the marketing hype of some manufacturer, purchase their product, get it home, put it in your system and the first word out of your mouth is: "whoops"

IMHO this means you have been an audiophile for too little

 

[Bill Hart]

when, in all honesty, you only listen to the same 12 records all the time.

 

[audioguy]

IMHO this means you have been an audiophile for too little

Correct!

 

[Mike Lavigne]

when, in all honesty, you only listen to the same 12 records all the time.

 

[Lee]

when, in all honesty, you only listen to the same 12 records all the time.

And at least four are by Diana Krall.

 

[Mike Lavigne]

And at least four are by Diana Krall.

and they are all different pressings of the same album.

 

[flez007]

... If you have jumped from SS amplification to tube based (back an forth) for more than three times.

 

[Bill Hart]

And at least four are by Diana Krall.

Ouch. Well at least Al Schmidt engineered them.

 

[Bill Hart]

Your records are organized by label and pressing, rather than by composer or performance.
You have all of the records on HP's list.
You know what HP's list is.