Dirk -- This may be off topic, but I seem to recall we have a few
audiophiles here -- without discussing your philosophy I find it interesting
that you are using the term "HiFi". Perfectly good term back in the mono
days of yore -- when Audio was a real magazine and RTV News always had
something interesting from Bert Whyte. When we wnt to stereo in the 50's I
thought the term "HiFi" became obsolete,, and was replaced by "Stereo". I'm
not sure that this was a positive change, but with the demise of High
Fidelity Magazine I really had thought the term "HiFi" was dead.
All this IMHO, of course.
Craig
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dirk Wright" <wright@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 6:06 AM
Subject: Re: [OT] hifi was:[OM] Lens Test
>
> >I recently had a little 'discussion' with my wife about Hi-Fi music
> >reproduction. I like good quality reproduction of music, it makes a
> >difference to my enjoyment of the music. My wife claims that while she
> >can apprreciate Hi-Fi reproduction she gets just as much satisfaction
> >listening to a piece of music played on a portable radio with a tiny
> >speaker.
> >
>
> She's probably more responsive to the emotional impact of music rather
than
> the three-dimensional "you are there" impact of a good hifi system. The
> emotional impact of a song can be recovered from any little radio, but the
> immersion into the heart and soul of a performance can only be conveyed by
an
> outstanding hifi system. The human mind can reconstruct a very large
portion
> of a song when played through a simple reproduction device and it can
ignore
> many kinds of non-music artifacts also. But sitting in the "sweet spot" of
an
> outstanding hifi is to be transported to the venue of a smoky bar in a
jazz
> cafe, with Theolonius Sphere Monk at the piano playing 'Round Midnight,
the
> tinkling of wine glasses and conversation in the background, and actually
> "seeing" him just to the right of center stage, the bassist behind him,
and
> the drummer off to the left. To relive a famous performance is the
pinnacle
> of the holy grail of this madness we call hifi.
>
>
> --
> Be Seeing You.
> Dirk Wright
> "I want to buy a husband who, every week when I sit down to watch `St.
> Elsewhere', won't scream, `FORGET IT, BLANCHE ... IT'S TIME FOR "HEE
> HAW"!!'"
> -- Berke Breathed, "Bloom County"
>
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