Eric ...
I have a friend who is a really good guitar player. He attended Berklee school of music to study guitar and the music end of film editing. After graduation, he worked in the film industry as an editor. He’s told me that it took years of being absent from the business before he could enjoy movies again. He was always criticizing the editing in his head and losing track of the film’s plot.
In the same vein, I have an audiophile buddy who spent years in the recording business. In spite of loving music, collecting music and listening to music, he always judges the recording first. I keep telling him that he’s missing out on lots of good music, but he says he can’t listen to good music on bad recordings.
Listening to equipment before listening to the music is something that I observe in this hobby. Never understood it. Isn’t the equipment supposed to get us closer to the music? Isn’t the music the end all ... the goal?
Frank
I have a friend who is a really good guitar player. He attended Berklee school of music to study guitar and the music end of film editing. After graduation, he worked in the film industry as an editor. He’s told me that it took years of being absent from the business before he could enjoy movies again. He was always criticizing the editing in his head and losing track of the film’s plot.
In the same vein, I have an audiophile buddy who spent years in the recording business. In spite of loving music, collecting music and listening to music, he always judges the recording first. I keep telling him that he’s missing out on lots of good music, but he says he can’t listen to good music on bad recordings.
Listening to equipment before listening to the music is something that I observe in this hobby. Never understood it. Isn’t the equipment supposed to get us closer to the music? Isn’t the music the end all ... the goal?
Frank