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Many years ago I used to have a lot of 70's & 80's B&O as I really like the design. Most of what I sourced I picked up for cheaps from quite high end hifi shops where customers had traded it in for something new. In one, the owner was really friendly and took me into one of the listening rooms to show off the £250,000 speakers they just had in. There was a sofa to sit in, and I was played a selection of music. At one point in the demo, the owner walked over to the speakers and removed a tiny little cover from a tweeter and in true Alan Partridge style asked me "can you hear the difference?". It was cringing. I couldn't hear any difference at all. None.
After a bit of back and forth, we exchanged places and I put the tiny little cover in and out while he listened with his eyes closed. It appeared he couldn't hear the difference either despite being adamant he could. It was an awful experience.
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I was obsessed by hifi when younger, always reading magazines, going to shops etc. One of the best things I did was to stop buying and reading hifi magazines. Once my listening/viewing room is complete I’ll be glad to leave all the research and just be able to get down to listening to music for its own sake, I find it frustrating when trying to enjoy music and finding myself critiquing the system instead. Thankfully v happy with our recent purchases so hopefully won’t be embarking on this kind of malarkey again for a while.
Tidal has been great until today when I heard about the death of someone who used to be part of my social/musical network and couldn’t find his work on Tidal. There have been a few other things I couldn’t find on there but really enjoying being able to do so much speculative listening.
Also had the pleasure of downloading a mix album and particularly enjoying a track to realise it was by an old friend of mine. Was a good excuse to call him up and check how he was doing.