I did something similar with a good friend of mine. He’s a decade younger than me, and thought that Sony and The like were high-end audio.
I took him to The Inner Ear show in Toronto many years back, I told him to bring a CD of his fave band and pick one song to listen to. We went from room to room of the hotel that the show was held.
I had him get his song played, and at several, he was, ya, that’s nice sounding…, but not really there yet. So then I told him to listen really carefully at certain parts that seemed to me to be buried in lower end systems.
Sure enough, after one room, he said, “Hey, I never noticed that there was a little bell sound at xyz part.” Then, after going to a better system, he was bouncing. He said there were 2 bells, and I swear I’ve never heard before. And on his fave system, there were 3 bells… and the lightning went off over his head.
He asked me if there was stuff like this in all music, stuff that you just couldn’t hear on low quality speakers. I just laughed.
So unfortunately he ended up having 2 kids, and lost his high paying job, so he never bought the speakers he wanted, but at least he understood why I was wiling to spend so much money on audio stuff.
I did something similar with a good friend of mine. He’s a decade younger than me, and thought that Sony and The like were high-end audio.
I took him to The Inner Ear show in Toronto many years back, I told him to bring a CD of his fave band and pick one song to listen to. We went from room to room of the hotel that the show was held.
I had him get his song played, and at several, he was, ya, that’s nice sounding…, but not really there yet. So then I told him to listen really carefully at certain parts that seemed to me to be buried in lower end systems.
Sure enough, after one room, he said, “Hey, I never noticed that there was a little bell sound at xyz part.” Then, after going to a better system, he was bouncing. He said there were 2 bells, and I swear I’ve never heard before. And on his fave system, there were 3 bells… and the lightning went off over his head.
He asked me if there was stuff like this in all music, stuff that you just couldn’t hear on low quality speakers. I just laughed.
So unfortunately he ended up having 2 kids, and lost his high paying job, so he never bought the speakers he wanted, but at least he understood why I was wiling to spend so much money on audio stuff.