>I recently had a little 'discussion' with my wife about Hi-Fi music
>reproduction. I like good quality reproduction of music, it makes a
>difference to my enjoyment of the music. My wife claims that while she
>can apprreciate Hi-Fi reproduction she gets just as much satisfaction
>listening to a piece of music played on a portable radio with a tiny
>speaker.
>
She's probably more responsive to the emotional impact of music rather than
the three-dimensional "you are there" impact of a good hifi system. The
emotional impact of a song can be recovered from any little radio, but the
immersion into the heart and soul of a performance can only be conveyed by an
outstanding hifi system. The human mind can reconstruct a very large portion
of a song when played through a simple reproduction device and it can ignore
many kinds of non-music artifacts also. But sitting in the "sweet spot" of an
outstanding hifi is to be transported to the venue of a smoky bar in a jazz
cafe, with Theolonius Sphere Monk at the piano playing 'Round Midnight, the
tinkling of wine glasses and conversation in the background, and actually
"seeing" him just to the right of center stage, the bassist behind him, and
the drummer off to the left. To relive a famous performance is the pinnacle
of the holy grail of this madness we call hifi.
--
Be Seeing You.
Dirk Wright
"I want to buy a husband who, every week when I sit down to watch `St.
Elsewhere', won't scream, `FORGET IT, BLANCHE ... IT'S TIME FOR "HEE
HAW"!!'"
-- Berke Breathed, "Bloom County"
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