Renat
@renatbaska
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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) β amplification β volume control (preamp) β 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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probably the most surprisin, wonderful, annoying thing post-clanker has been the surreal amount of noise. users, friends, people I once saw as friends, opps, collaborators, token holders, vcs, cex, other founders, IRL friends, family, random anons on twitter, warpcast.
challenge, opportunity: there is signal in that noise, staying receptive to signal regardless of the type, source
less obvious challenge: the ego part. so many people saying what we should do, at precisely the moment where choices we made were playing out as we'd hoped! differently too.
another ego part: some of those people know way more about X or Y than us.
tension is generative, you don't learn thinking you're right all the time & you don't make good choices by being reactive. You simply navigate, discuss, try, and then try again. avoid obvious pitfalls and study failures.
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