Are you an audiophile?

I have a decent set of speakers, a decent pair of headphones, and though I can detect a very slight difference between, say, 192 and 256/320 kbps, I don't hear it unless I'm intentionally looking for it. It doesn't bother me, so the majority of my music collection is in 192. I don't have the disk space, nor do I plan on spending the money to have the space, for anything else anytime soon.

One thing that DOES bother me? Bose. Bose is so ridiculously overrated and overpriced. All-digital sound is like crap to a musician's ears. Give me all analog, or mixed digital-analog audio, but never ever subject me to pure digital sound. I hate it.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by ramoth

What the fuck are you even talking about, Ayos?

Bose do suck, but its because their stuff is incredibly overpriced. "all digital sound" ... Please start making sense. Either that or shut the fuck up.

Are you the only one on this planet who has never heard, or heard of, the difference between digital and analog audio? Okay, here.
Analog sound vs. digital sound
That, especially the brief sections about "analog warmth" will give you an idea. Sure, most music these days is stored in a digital format. That's fine, but there's still a distinct difference between playing it through separate types of audio systems. Bose, for instance, has all sorts of digital "enhancements" that drain the sound even more of the "analog warmth" for the sake of making it "cleaner" and louder, even out of small speakers. Bose's initial point of pride, when I first saw their commercials, was "all-digital sound" for crying out loud. Hell even playing music, whether mixed with live aspects or not, through an analog sound board presented a huge difference. The guy who built the thing from the ground up sat and talked with me for hours about the difference between analog and digital sound. Six professional musicians I was working with commented on it the moment we set it up and started running CDs through it. Are you seriously going to sit there and tell me there's no such thing? Don't be daft.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Oh, I totally agree that it's all very subjective. Not surprising, considering what we're talking about. I'm not even saying that analog is better than digital. I just LIKE IT better. I don't think digital is vastly inferior to analog in any way. I just love the sound of analog, the "emotion" and "warmth" of it. Ergo, I hate Bose, because they've done even more to eliminate that. In the strictest sense, digital is "better" especially to audiophiles, which is part of why I voted no. I'm definitely not an audiophile. I love high-quality, clean, clear audio, but I'll take an old LP of Ray Charles over an iTunes digital release of the same music any day.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.