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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"...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." 
~ @matthewb 

I'm a huge music nerd and a low-key audiogeek. You kind of have to become an audiogeek if you're into drone and dark ambient music (my favorite genres), because most of it is so subtle. 

I've got a lifetime subscription to the Roon software (use it every day and love it!) and I've spent a fair amount of time reading about home audio in the context of room design: loudspeakers, subwoofers, optimizing listening positions, vibroacoustics, tactile transducers, acoustic treatments, etc.

This fantastic thread is the kind of niche content I hope to see more of on FC. I learned about cardioid dispersion, something I'd never heard of before.

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thank you for sharing! looking forward to more audio chats on purple app 💜

Likewise. Thank you for the time and careful attention you obviously put into that thread.