Clash of the Titans: Sony R10 vs. Audio Technica ATH W2002 at chez markl...

[markl]

Well from its humble beginings, we've now turned this post about my forthcoming headphones into a discussion of mortality.

This must be the Head-Fi record for largest digression!

markl

 

[pigmode]

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Death is a natural part of life, every has to die sometime, so why fear it? That of course doesn't mean that I want to die, but I do not fear my own mortality .

That's great. Hopefully you can keep to those ldeals for the next 50 to 60 years no matter how the cards fall.

 

[redshifter]

it is a peculiar kind of blinder we wear when a stranger dies. those thousands of people who die of starvation and disease in the world are strangers to most of us, so their deaths don't hit us as hard. in a way people knew cobain through his music. thus when he died it was like a friend dying. this in no way means one death is somehow more important than another, it's just human nature.

 

[M Rael]

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Originally posted by redshifter it is a peculiar kind of blinder we wear when a stranger dies. those thousands of people who die of starvation and disease in the world are strangers to most of us, so their deaths don't hit us as hard. in a way people knew cobain through his music. thus when he died it was like a friend dying. this in no way means one death is somehow more important than another, it's just human nature.

Well said. I felt sad to hear Cobain killed himself and I felt sad when Ayrton Senna (the F1 star) died too. Sometimes the world seems less when a well known performer leaves it. If Michael Jordan died tomorrow lots of quote/unquote 'strangers' would feel a strong sense of loss indeed.