A comment on calling these 'Drug-like' systems
As a side note: It is not just [the better] drugs that do this to us [minus not so nice side-effects], of course, but things like seeing a new born baby [unless you are a pediatrician or something], love making, probably sky diving for the first time :-), and a whole host of things that occur in life [on TV anyway ;-)]. All these are wonderful life experiences that are so powerful that they leave us little room to say anything but ‘wow’. Instead of calling the stereo systems that do this to us ‘drug-like’ sounding systems we could call them ‘sex-like’, or ‘near-death-experience like’, or ‘life-affirming-like’ …
So very true….. since my first foray into the world of audiophilia, if that’s a word, in the mid 80s, with my Rotel/Paradigm system 🙂 and up to the present, rocking the likes of Bose 😉 and Cerw!n Vega! I have embraced drug equipment like a drunk trucker embraces a fat chick 😉 Verrry life affirming stuff indeed… 🙂
Just curious, your blog has disappeared from Daily Audiophile dot calm. Odd considering your shop and expertise captures the essence of “audiophile”. What’s up wit dat??
Hi YRHU,
Don’t know why we are no longer on http://dailyaudiophile.com.
We ARE still on the original site using that display format: http://audio.alltop.com/
And, of course, we are also on http://mattters.com/high-end-audio/
Take care,
-Mike