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In Reply to: John Curl: with respect, but you pissed this musician off (long) posted by Rick W on July 30, 2002 at 12:22:59:
Rick,Probably the whole difference comes from using different parts of the brain "muscles" for playing versus listening. I've found that a lot of the detail that audiophiles stress seem to involve a different experience than actually playing the darn music.
At least it's that way for me. Playing the music, even jungle R & R or Blues is a whole different experience and requires a whole different set of neural pathways, than listening to McKinnley Morganfield and his Telecaster.
You know what I mean. You listen and you say: "So that's what he did. He pre-bent the note. Or he used dropped D tuning. Or he hammered-on this note, then bent the same note up then second time around."
Whereas, an audiophile listener is hearing pacing, instrument interactions, tonal quality versus another recording, etc. More like listening to the quality & character of the music and of the engineering and recording equipment. And the interaction of the recording with his system.
I don't feel it's fair to equate the two experiences. Like I said before, a friend I know has a ton of expensive hi-fi equipment and some very nice acoustic guitars. But, he can't tune a guitar, if his life depended on it (my opinion). So, when he hits an open G-chord----Ooo wee! It don't sound so good to my ears. But, he it doesn't seem to bother him. Yet, he can hear refined details of his stereo system, which I can't hear---unless I make a point of trying to hear the detail (so, it's probably a Placebo Effect, on my part).
I kinda look at it like those who really know airplane history and the intricies of each design and their significance to history. Versus those that fly airplanes. Two different birds. Two different set of criteria. Same medium: airplanes.
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