If you’re anything like me, you’re constantly upgrading your gear and spending several stacks of thousands of dollars…
But what if our picture of endgame doesn’t exist? In other words, we are chasing a certain quality that doesn’t exist?
If you’re anything like me, you’re constantly upgrading your gear and spending several stacks of thousands of dollars…
But what if our picture of endgame doesn’t exist? In other words, we are chasing a certain quality that doesn’t exist?
Well there’s not ‘endgame’ here. Originally, after they realized that the wax/shellac cylinder and disk could be useful for more than simply dictation, audio equipment became the means of bringing performances by famous musicians to more people than could fit in a music hall.
Along the way the sound quality improved to the point where people started realizing that maybe this was more than just a way to hear scratchy, nasally distorted recordings of their favourites and could reproduce instruments in a convincing enough manner that one might start to think they were in the room with them.
Add to that the desire of many to tinker with technical things and the tinkering itself became the ‘endgame’ as such.