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Poll Results: I'm insane?

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  • 60% (6)
    Yes
  • 40% (4)
    No
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post #1 of 5
1/2/12 at 1:40am
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I'm rambling and a bit incoherent at this point so my diction and syntax may fall by the wayside. As I look into the new year, I am filled with happiness. Literally. FILLED. Even on those less than perfect days, my headphone purchases allow me to just unwind. It's rare to hear music in my life. I mean live music, it's not common but when I do hear it, I love it. Having a system that can bring the sounds of live music, a transference of emotion and thoughts, and expression into my ears while I go to sleep is worth so much to me, and I look forward to the time I spend every day before I feel too tired, even if it's only two songs.

 

If performance is a release to some, listening is an absorption of that release. A more accurate listening becomes a more potent absorption. So if I can absorb some other reality, not that mine is bad necessarily, but just feel something else. Expand my emotions. Realize something about another person. I'm far too inexperienced in life to have felt the index of emotions capable of humans. I don't know what I'm saying but I'm exhausted but I don't feel the urge to sleep. Something about staying awake too long drives you to a point of inebriated reflection and introspection. I start pondering things. I went to put on my headphones and I thought, why am I the only one out of all my friends who gives a #*@! about this stuff? Is there some genetic predisposition? Is there some palpable benefit to the desire to have wonderfully reproduced frequencies strike my ear? sajdf;lksjdf;lakjsf I'm done. Time to go listen to some Black Keys.


Edited by Mdraluck23 - 1/2/12 at 1:41am
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post #2 of 5
1/2/12 at 2:02am

No you're not insane... you just care about the small details like everyone else here does. And you're right, live performance is an experience that brings people together and forms an incredibly strong bond to those who are performing and those listening. It's got to be one of those primitive things that is, so far as we know (I may be heading into my limited knowledge of other mammals here) only human beings appreciate. And isn't that the whole point of listening to music, I mean with headphones and such? To recreate that?

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post #3 of 5
1/2/12 at 2:31am

There is no genetic reason anyone could prefer higher end audio. Music is music and it should speak to people no matter what they use. If i have to use $10 earbuds like my panasonic hje120 i am using right now i will be perfectly satisfied. Higher end doesn't offer anything other then bragging rights and a little more clarity to me. I always use the fact i have $300 headphones as bragging rights. But yet deep down i know i wasted money when i can get enjoyment from $10. Music shouldn't depend on the equipment to get enjoyment. It can help make for a more enjoyable experience but it isn't necassary. I enjoy higher end though but i find it redundent to spend more then $300 on something like headphones which serves 1 purpose and doesn't do that one purpose much better then the much cheaper options. But i digress. Some people genuinely feel they need high end audio to get any enjoyment. I have used built in computer speakers and been perfectly happy. I might not hear everything in the music but i still enjoy it immensely. I care for the music never the gear.

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post #4 of 5
1/2/12 at 6:58pm
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Originally Posted by Enter Darkness View Post

There is no genetic reason anyone could prefer higher end audio. Music is music and it should speak to people no matter what they use. If i have to use $10 earbuds like my panasonic hje120 i am using right now i will be perfectly satisfied. Higher end doesn't offer anything other then bragging rights and a little more clarity to me. I always use the fact i have $300 headphones as bragging rights. But yet deep down i know i wasted money when i can get enjoyment from $10. Music shouldn't depend on the equipment to get enjoyment. It can help make for a more enjoyable experience but it isn't necassary. I enjoy higher end though but i find it redundent to spend more then $300 on something like headphones which serves 1 purpose and doesn't do that one purpose much better then the much cheaper options. But i digress. Some people genuinely feel they need high end audio to get any enjoyment. I have used built in computer speakers and been perfectly happy. I might not hear everything in the music but i still enjoy it immensely. I care for the music never the gear.

Read in Dexters voice. I don't pander my musical tastes to what sounds good either. That drives me nuts sometimes. I love Weezer. Terrible recording quality. It's sad.

Im a strange man on 8 hours of sleep in three days.
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post #5 of 5
1/4/12 at 11:19pm
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I just bought my pal some Westones UM1's.

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