Quote Originally Posted by Resident Loser
...as I said to E-Stat in another thread, I don't...got me a tee-vee, a VCR and a DVD player...if I had the gear to watch movies, why wouldn't I use it for music...

I just asked.

I've said it before and I'll say it again...it's all just so much hoo-ha! Someone, somewhere has sold the public a bill-of-goods...you can't live without it...the HT, the gonzo SUV, the designer clothes, the $6 dollar cuppa', the friggin' cell-phone...

I dont own a SUV. Never been to Starbucks. Jeans and t-shirts for me. Never owned or even used a cell-phone. Shoots all that down the drain.

All this cr@p is a smokescreen...if Marx thought religion was the opiate of the masses, I wonder how he would characterize all this consumer garbage...

Look, and please follow me here...all this $h!t is stuff that trickled down from the folks who have more money than brains...rich folks have had their fancy cars and big houses, the projection TVs, didn't care if a cheezburger cost 'em 20 bux...if you convince enough of us mere mortals that these things will somehow make our lives "better" because we too can "have it all" it distracts us from the real problems...sooo, we have latch-key kids because both parents have to work to keep up the "lifestyle", more stress, $h!t food from Col. Macwendybelle because no one cooks, rampant obesity and health issues, reliance on prescription drugs to help us sleep or stay awake or deal with high blood pressure or stress...folks who don't think twice about $200 sneakers and continue to aid and abet the continuing upward spiral...the "average" family with an average CC debt of $7000...get my drift...it's a all big game...
My sneakers are always on sale,hopefully under 70 bucks.

Never,ever had a CC debt

Before some yahoo takes me to task for being too far off-topic...I prefer stereo...further, I prefer vinyl and RTR tapes, not because they are better formats(which they very well might be) but because it has a ritual...it's more involving. Setting-up the TT/cart requires a certain ability some might find daunting, cleaning the disks is certainly ritual, being steps closer to the event is compelling, threading tape, cleaning and demagnetizing heads, feeling like an archivist or keeper of tradition is also a part of it. I have a theory that much of the wire hoopla and similar things are the result of the "digitizing" the sources, it fills a void...Yes, I do listen to CDs but they are even more "impersonal" than cassettes were...they're throwaways, it's all too easy...playing music isn't the "event" it is with analog, I feel less compelled to make it anything special or even bother to sit to listen...but, hey...it's fast becoming a disposable world for folks who can't grasp more than a sound-bite or so it seems...

I have system requirements the newer stuff cannot fulfill...and, contrary to popular opinion, that fact does not make me less "educated" but more so...it requires more time, effort and energy to seek out gear that will meet my needs and discarding stuff that doesn't. In the process I am exposed to all the formats and gear at varying price levels...I learn what I can, and arrive at reasonable conclusions based on facts, not the premise of somehow improving my lot in life.

jimHJJ(...good listening...)
In the end,its ok that you listen to 2ch and its ok someothers use HT for both. Some of your thoughts are quite a loud of crap,imo of course. I could easily figure all 2ch users are fat,short slobs that wearout there chairs within 6 months but i dont think that at all.