"True audiophile" is loosely defined here as someone who has bought a "serious" home stereo system in the past five years.
Quote: If you think about it, the equipment that has traditionally defined the audiophile is antithetical to the way we experience music today. Speakers are clunky and immobile, and expensive shelf systems don't play easily swappable digital files. Instead, stereo shopping nowadays often means picking up an iPod and a speaker dock. The combination is cheaper, mobile, convenient, and, for better or worse, cool.
Speaking of home stereo systems.......
Someone loves his Bang & Olufsen 7000 system as much as I did. (Yes, past tense.) But play any scratchy, skip-prone library albums on it. Not on your life.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=x8LvQKYXJ6k (Sorta like porn for the true audiophile.)
And remember the initial promise of music CD's carefree maintenance? Moving to this format was going to be an across-the-board winner for libraries, we were told. It was a pretty short honeymoon, if I recall. The first time I experienced a CD malfunction, it sounded as though the St. Valentine's Day massacre was taking place in the family room.
When Andy, my older son, was 2 years old, he yanked the turntable arm of our Beocenter 7000 out of its socket. I can still feel the pain of that moment. And, of course, I had no one to blame but myself -- for leaving this once-prized possession within his easy reach.
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