My hifi pet peeve, and I thought this train of thinking finally died 20 years ago, is people who think that electronic isn’t “real music” or worthy of a high fidelity system.
Your lack of appreciation or understanding doesn’t invalidate it as an art form. There’s plenty of room in the world for both acoustic & electronic instruments, not to mention artists who seamlessly blend the two.
Kids these days and their damn electrical guitars, smh. The truest representation of a hifi system’s performance is the ability to faithfully reproduce field recordings.
Can’t agree with that - there is well recorded/produced music that both benefits from hifi and impresses when tried to be found in pretty much any genre - when I was a teenager I was told I didn’t need a hifi as I was only listening to pop and rock music, and high fidelity was only required for “proper” (ie classical) music.
They were wrong
They were very wrong for sure!! I remember folks telling me anything that uses electricity can not be a musical instrument. You know, the type of people that think rock is the Devil’s music and if you have long hair you must be on drugs.
Some chat about leather carrying cases for cables at a different thread reminded me of a real pet peeve of mine.
I recently bought some cables from my favorite cable mfr, Audience. They came in a large, beautifully finished, glossy photo printed box inside of which was a beautiful hard nylon, zippered carrying case with a purpose molded cushioning material interior. Inside this case was a high quality nylon bag with a lovely pull tie closure and inside that was a thick, resealable plastic bag inside which is finally the cable.
Hey Audience, how about you save me a couple hundred bucks and stick the cable in a box and ship it to me?
Back in the day the opposite end of the spectrum was Kimber capitalizing on the PBJ theme by enclosing those cables in sandwich bags, Sometimes less is more.
My latest ethernet cable gave an unexpected taste of both sides – a satin covered cushioned insert in a glossy box AND the test data. Who do they think they are pulling a stunt like that?
I have purchased only one Audience case, with a cord inside it. The case was extremely impressive. The cord not so much. If I am ever in the mood to buy a fancy new case, I will contact Audience.
The piano black, hand rubbed wooden cases, with soft velour cups that IsoAcoustic feet come in is the worst. They charge $899 list for four Titans. Most of that cost must go for the box. Sigh.
Happily, my Gryphon gear comes in relatively inexpensive wood crates. I would expect a $35,000 pair of interconnects to come in a solid gold box. When opened angels sing.
I have REL on the brain since I installed my Carbon Special!