... you are lost.
People may have read that somewhere this year Ciska started to make constructive comments to the sound (which the family undergoes each evening for many hours). She was so good at it, that I put the label "new born audiophile" on her.
Nice.
But a few days ago it occurred to me that this can be quite a pain for the hobby. This is what happened :
I changed something in the electrical realm. Of course it should be for the better;
I think that we audiophiles are always full with high hopes. Against all odds we want things to be better, and so they are. Or if maybe not, they should be. Nah, they are.
No wait.
I am of the kind who want things to be better, and give that some time. If it is not better at first glance, maybe I can see through and discover some positives elsewhere.
This works quite well when you're alone.
If within 10 minutes after my electrical appliance I start to think that I don't find the music interesting, then this is something I may think for a week or a month and still survive on other aspects (could be more slam). However, if within 30 minutes your audiophile wife tells you "hey, this does not sound interesting", then what.
Then you lose all your courage and drop dead on the floor because of someone telling your the FACT.
No hiding from it.
I changed a few things for settings, and was sure things improved. OK, I am still seeking for the real good sound, but alas - it seems that I can survive.
Yesterday :
"What a dull, nothing, nothing-saying mysic you are playing; Wish you were here my ass - where's that beautiful guitar, eh ?"
and worse :
"You know, you can put up all the the most stupid jazz stuff you like, because I am not bothered by it anyway. It is all bweh bweh bweh flat sh*t. It is impossible to annoy me now."
Quite hurting.
Philosophising a bit more about this, it is actually quite interesting;
What I learn from this (or should learn from it ?) is that when sound is too forgiving, it is all "nothing".
It is true - we probably are all quite over the limit of squeezing out the best and it could include the emphasis of the music type playing.
I don't like jazz myself. However, I need it to test things some times. Well, didn't I say last week that it is nothing for me to play a full album of Count Basie and Dizzy Gillespie ? I did.
In retrospective, does this tell something ?
Anyway, yesterday's conversation about this ended with me telling "you put in that Windows 8 disk and then you can be happy about annoying music again".
And I guess that will happen today ...
