Erik Jälevik wrote:
Fair point I suppose. But surely that's more down to speaker placement and general features of the listening room rather than vinyl vs CD? (I might be wrong, I'm not knowledgeable about these things as I mentioned.)
..but my initial surprise was to do with how you were talking about speakers disappearing and natural sound which I think doesn't really make sense in the context of electronic music.
Yes and no. Think of a boombox. When you listen to one of those you hear clearly that the sound is coming from the box. Those speakers do NOT disappear ;) When I'm talking about disappearing speakers, I mean that you hear the music projected from its virtual soundstage, and not from two speakers. Of course, speaker placement is very important here, but so is the source material. Once again, compressed digital audio is very useful here, since the compression tends to get rid of the depth of the recording, and therefore you get the feeling that you're listening to a pair of speakers as opposed to the music... I guess this is just hard to explain :)
Hmm, I'm not sure my musical experience would be sufficiently enriched by expensive hi-fi equipment to justify the cost of it. But then again, I've never had the chance to listen to my favourite music on some state of the art equipment. But nah, as long as there's some proper bass I'm happy. ;)
Hehe, as long as you're happy :) If you live in Stockholm or nearby perhaps we can meet some day and I'll play your ass off ;)
I'd rather spend my money on music to be honest.
Now that's a valid point which I fully respect. Problem with me is that I spend way too much on both... ;) Cheers, Peo