Music

by popular request (okay just @ted and @nicholas) here is an overview of our hi-fi setup:

* but first, why?
listening to music can be either a passive activity, like background music while cooking or commuting, or an activity that demands your full attention. if the latter, then the quality of your experience is shaped by the ability of your system to reproduce music. this means everything from source (streaming, CD, vinyl, reel-to-reel tape) → amplification → volume control (preamp) → speakers and all of the cables in between.

maybe this all sounds dumb (who cares about cables???) but until you have a once-in-a-lifetime experience listening to a really great system, you won't know what you're missing from your favourite music. not just technical qualities like detail or extension, but emotion, texture, and meaning. hi-fi is a great real-world example of plato's cave, because once you've heard what you're missing... you can't unhear it.

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I will pretty much never balk at the price of hi-fi gear like speakers, amps, turntables, etc. because they are some of the things that I use most in my day-to-day life.

60hr this week alone (!!), pretty wild. of course not all of that is dedicated active listening, but still. 

the only things that I (maybe) use for more hours per week would be my laptop and desktop computer.

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exactly! the things that we interact with daily are huge factors in our quality of life. definitely worth optimizing for whatever makes each day consistently better.

The reason we spend decent money on a mattress and/or replace it when needed.

I used to justify all my personal expenditures when I came out of college this way…

How many uses and cost per use etc…

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is that dataviz an output of the rune software pumpkin

Same. As soon as I saw this I looked at my own Roon home page to check my listening time at home this month.

I don't look at these numbers very often; my subjective sense is just that I'm "almost always" listening to music.

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a fellow Roon user, incredible! you’re the second one I’ve encountered on FC so far. very cool.

how do you listen at home? mostly streaming or analog as well?