Let's move to the next level! Life is just an exploration trip of our own being. We travel by exploring our being with help of what we feel and the feeling comes from the heart.The music addresses the heart. As a form of art, music is an expression of the artist's heart in a language accessible only to the heart, which decodes this language by feeling and this feeling are actually the emotions which music arises in us. Arts and especially music is a love declaration towards life. Music ist the expression of artist's and player's love. When we listen to music, our heart fills with joy and love. MUSIC IS LOVE.
All people who listen to music find themselves on one step or another, on one level or another of their exploration trip of the musical universe and actually of explorating their own emotional universe. We listen to music because music allows us to get deeper into our own being and to explore more, at a more intimate level ,our own soul by means of emotions. By listening to music we tend to know ourselves better.
In order to listen to music it is common to take part in live-events, but also to listen to music at home by means of audio-equipments.
Because the most of us have at home audio-equipments and these lie between us and our music, these equipments have become more and more important. The audio-equipments at home draw the map of our trip in the music's world, not from a quantitative or qualitative point of view, but from an aesthetical point of view, that is emotionally.
During time I have discovered that there are several evolutional levels, which the audiophiles makes , levels revealed by the audio-equipments possessed by the audiophiles, as well as by the sound generated by these audio-equipments.
Levels:
0-level. The level of the not interested man.
This is the level where man does not give much importance to music and that's why he does not give much importance to audio-equipments, too. It is the level where man, in his trip, does not feel the need to explore his being by means of music. It is the level where man listens to music by chance, on radio, on TV and on PC.
Level 1. Beginner's level.
It is the level where man starts to feel the importance of the emotions felt as he listens to music. Human being starts to listen to music regularly and starts to raise the issue of the quality of music's reproduction and he starts to realize that in order to listen to music he has to invest in a dedicated audio-equipment. Level 1 is the level where the human being becomes curious regarding the audio-equipments and starts to discuss about the topic with his mates and he usually enters also the related forums. It is the level where man builds his first audio system. Because his direct experience is limited, he builds his first system by using the informations and suggestions on the audio forums. In this phase, the becoming audiophile becomes active on forums and he starts to ask questions with the purpose to learn and to clarify his options regarding the first acquisition. During this phase , part of the becoming audio fans also start to visit special show-rooms , looking for information, experience and equipments. Together with the acquisition of the first audio system, our man receives the ''baptize'' of the audiophiling and he can call himself an audiophile. On this evolution step, the audiophile as a beginner judges still the acquisition of the audio equipments and the music's reproduction as a rational and logical act. The majority of the audiophiles as beginners are yet not fully convinced of the importance of the cables in a audio system and also of the burning- in phenomenon (the burning- in of the audio equipment takes time as the running-in of a car, and it ows firstly to the formatting phenomenon of the condensers comprised in the audio equipment and not only). A few audiophiles at this level are aware of the importance of the cables and do admit the burning- in phenomenon , yet more as a belief in something that cannot be rationally and logically proved. From the point of view of the financial investment, the beginning audiophiles split into 2 main classes.In the first class, class A, there are to be found the audiophiles who believe that music can also be listened to a cheap audio equipments like mass-market type , equipment which can be acquired from supermarkets, but also SH from forums and from the speciality dealers. On this level, named 1A by me, the audio fan buys equipments with good technical specifications produced by big industrial producers like Sony, Marantz, Yamaha, Pioneer, etc, etc. Among the beginner audiophiles with limited budget , these companies have good reputation , yet their reputation comes more from the past, when these brands are assumed to have also built audio equipments of ''audiophile-like quality ââ'¬Å".
Some music listeners finding themselves on this level 1A will understand quickly that their investment is not enough and they will rapidly evolve to THE NEXT LEVEL.
Observation. From an audiophile point of view, the above mentioned audio equipments produce an unsatisfying sound. The reproduced music is with no resolution and detail , the sound has no transparency and is without sound-stage and most of the time the tonal accuracy is cheap. The sound is also ''noisy'' because the audio-equipment does not succed to ''separate'' well the reproduced instruments and it does ''mix'' them. At the same time, in terms of attack and decay, things are cheap. Most of the time, the power specifications are optimistic. THEY DO OFFER A POOR EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE!!!
Read the all story on my blog:http://audiosophie.blogspot.com/
All people who listen to music find themselves on one step or another, on one level or another of their exploration trip of the musical universe and actually of explorating their own emotional universe. We listen to music because music allows us to get deeper into our own being and to explore more, at a more intimate level ,our own soul by means of emotions. By listening to music we tend to know ourselves better.
In order to listen to music it is common to take part in live-events, but also to listen to music at home by means of audio-equipments.
Because the most of us have at home audio-equipments and these lie between us and our music, these equipments have become more and more important. The audio-equipments at home draw the map of our trip in the music's world, not from a quantitative or qualitative point of view, but from an aesthetical point of view, that is emotionally.
During time I have discovered that there are several evolutional levels, which the audiophiles makes , levels revealed by the audio-equipments possessed by the audiophiles, as well as by the sound generated by these audio-equipments.
Levels:
0-level. The level of the not interested man.
This is the level where man does not give much importance to music and that's why he does not give much importance to audio-equipments, too. It is the level where man, in his trip, does not feel the need to explore his being by means of music. It is the level where man listens to music by chance, on radio, on TV and on PC.
Level 1. Beginner's level.
It is the level where man starts to feel the importance of the emotions felt as he listens to music. Human being starts to listen to music regularly and starts to raise the issue of the quality of music's reproduction and he starts to realize that in order to listen to music he has to invest in a dedicated audio-equipment. Level 1 is the level where the human being becomes curious regarding the audio-equipments and starts to discuss about the topic with his mates and he usually enters also the related forums. It is the level where man builds his first audio system. Because his direct experience is limited, he builds his first system by using the informations and suggestions on the audio forums. In this phase, the becoming audiophile becomes active on forums and he starts to ask questions with the purpose to learn and to clarify his options regarding the first acquisition. During this phase , part of the becoming audio fans also start to visit special show-rooms , looking for information, experience and equipments. Together with the acquisition of the first audio system, our man receives the ''baptize'' of the audiophiling and he can call himself an audiophile. On this evolution step, the audiophile as a beginner judges still the acquisition of the audio equipments and the music's reproduction as a rational and logical act. The majority of the audiophiles as beginners are yet not fully convinced of the importance of the cables in a audio system and also of the burning- in phenomenon (the burning- in of the audio equipment takes time as the running-in of a car, and it ows firstly to the formatting phenomenon of the condensers comprised in the audio equipment and not only). A few audiophiles at this level are aware of the importance of the cables and do admit the burning- in phenomenon , yet more as a belief in something that cannot be rationally and logically proved. From the point of view of the financial investment, the beginning audiophiles split into 2 main classes.In the first class, class A, there are to be found the audiophiles who believe that music can also be listened to a cheap audio equipments like mass-market type , equipment which can be acquired from supermarkets, but also SH from forums and from the speciality dealers. On this level, named 1A by me, the audio fan buys equipments with good technical specifications produced by big industrial producers like Sony, Marantz, Yamaha, Pioneer, etc, etc. Among the beginner audiophiles with limited budget , these companies have good reputation , yet their reputation comes more from the past, when these brands are assumed to have also built audio equipments of ''audiophile-like quality ââ'¬Å".
Some music listeners finding themselves on this level 1A will understand quickly that their investment is not enough and they will rapidly evolve to THE NEXT LEVEL.
Observation. From an audiophile point of view, the above mentioned audio equipments produce an unsatisfying sound. The reproduced music is with no resolution and detail , the sound has no transparency and is without sound-stage and most of the time the tonal accuracy is cheap. The sound is also ''noisy'' because the audio-equipment does not succed to ''separate'' well the reproduced instruments and it does ''mix'' them. At the same time, in terms of attack and decay, things are cheap. Most of the time, the power specifications are optimistic. THEY DO OFFER A POOR EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE!!!
Read the all story on my blog:http://audiosophie.blogspot.com/
