The next level!

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 “.
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/

 

beautiful man. far out

 

Oh dear ... better get rid of the old Gramophone

http://bluesplayer.co.uk/youtube_ja...-Crusoe-go-with-Friday-on-Saturday-Night.html

 

I've been listening to the video with the gramophone and is just beautifull man, wonderfull!

 

It's just wonderful the gramophone, just wonderfull!!!
Thanks for the link!

 

I've found an old gramophone at an antiquity market, about one year ago. The price was high but I was impressed by the amazing sound of this old "gadget".

I am not sure. Is this compatible with the modern vinyl ?

 

if i make a coment here i will not be responsibible, : music is the food of love, hi-fi made it so , hence 3 kids,bye,
nando.

 

I've got eight O-levels. Where does that leave me?

 

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a level short of a HMV,
nando.

 

only eight !.....

back in the day .....when I took mine you were luck to be entered into for more than five ....

that was when owning of say olevels meant that you were classed as being in the top 15% of the population ..in education terms ...

then a degree meant that you were in the top 2%

I was told I'd never get A levels .....wish I could go back and shove my Bsc [hons] up the t~at's ar~e ..


but nowerdays when 50 % of the population has a degree ....what are they worth ...! next to nothing ..but I digress

I blame our so call socialist leaders for there experiment in social engineering ..attempting to make every one elite ...or was it to make everyone equal ...either way they have spectacularly failed on all accounts, and put us billions of pound in debt and thousands of pounds in personal debt if you tried to followed that particular dream ......sooner we get them out the better imo

what was this thread about ?

 

O-levels...

 

i thought it was high levels!?
nando.

 

Total agreement with Zanash on that one.
Does anyone really believe those year-on-year record exam results for school leavers?
I've just been reading how examination standards have been acknowledged to have fallen and how marking has become increasingly lax, coupled with internet access to sites where you can cut and paste essays and palm them off as your own work. If you've ever marked undergrad practicals, where an inability to use correct grammar, and spelling which is so poor, that you cannot believe the fact these guys have even left school, let alone got into university, then you realise they're kidding no-one.
Everyone wants to be special. Fact of life - not everyone is.

 

It's not about knowledge here. It is nothing to know. I'ts about the trip of our lifes. Music is love and God is Love. God is Music and music and all arts are from God. The artistic inspiration it's from God.

 

And where does god get it from?

 

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a hi-fi shop or ebay?
nando.

 

Wow... imagine the heavenly audiophile archetype, we may have to use a silken net's to catch the magic spot