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here is the story of the first time I heard Hotel California on a hi-fi system: * hi-fi and ramen I caught the hi-fi bug while still in college, meaning that I had no money and had chosen a terrible hobby for my circumstances. nevertheless, I persisted and was determined to buy a pair of passive speakers and an integrated amp. I found a pair of Totem Rainmaker bookshelf speakers on marketplace for $465. this was way more than I should have spent at the time but it wasn’t anything that ramen for a few months (or years) couldn’t solve. the speakers were made by a local company not far from where I lived in Montreal and featured black ash wood cabinetry, paper woofers, and metal dome tweeters. and, most importantly, they were $465.
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* Hotel California much to my surprise, he brought me into his kitchen for the demo. on the table was his old clunky PC laptop which came as no surprise when he revealed that he was an accountant. accountants always have shitty laptops. he installed the speakers beside his makeshift kitchen table desk full of messy papers and blasted Hotel California. the speakers sounded HUGE and they had so much bass. was there a subwoofer hiding somewhere? you could hear precisely where every instrument was located, floating in the air like magic. I was hooked. he went on to lecture me about mp3 files vs. FLAC and even played me the same Hotel California track with an mp3 file instead. it did actually sound worse, even though I was told by reddit that you couldn't tell the difference between 320kbps mp3 and lossless.
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