Confronting your own realities...

[Mike]

Cop out!

And Marco, stop modifying your posts you sly git!... we don't want any moving goalposts now do we?

[Marco]

Mikey,

LOL. You know me quite well, so I should have thought it was obvious where I stood on this matter, and you haven't yet 'fessed up' yourself!

Just to make it crystal clear then:

I'm extremely confident in my hi-fi beliefs and consider the current ones I hold as being 'correct' at this present moment in time, simply because I trust my ears implicitly and the subjective beliefs I have then formed by using them.

This is due to me never making snap judgements about anything in with hi-fi and always taking the necessary time to assess things properly using my own trusted judgement criteria which has been tried and tested over many years.

*However*, if someone successfully demonstrated to me that I was wrong, or not entirely correct, then I would reassess my beliefs accordingly because I'm open-minded and receptive to new ideas and change. As far as I'm concerned that's the way everyone should view things because to be otherwise is simply to be cocooned in the false comfort zone of "la-la-land", as someone said earlier, and in my opinion that isn't a healthy place to be, unless you're on some 'special substances'

I should have thought though from the tone of the opening post in this thread, and the very fact I started it in the first place, that my views were obvious and that I was trying to get those who may think the opposite from me to come out of the woodwork...

My goal is to make people stop and think and perhaps make some changes to their hi-fi beliefs if necessary.

Ok, smarty pants, where do you stand in all of this?

Marco.

[anthonyTD]

All in good time, Mikey. We're simply testing the mindset of our membership (and lurkers ).

I think people who know me well will have a good idea of my position on this anyway

Marco.

err,,is it doggy ???

[Marco]

HAHAHA... Come on, let's have a serious answer from you, oh valve guru!

Marco.

[Primalsea]

Marco,
If music is the important thing and Hifi is the means to the end then why did you start what is primary a Hifi forum?

[anthonyTD]

HAHAHA... Come on, let's have a serious answer from you, oh valve guru!

Marco.

but seriously,
i would like to think that i am open minded enough to take on board other peoples criticisms,[ i hope people who know me will vouch for this] and would be willing to change something if i thought they had a valid point, and i have done so on more than one occasion, but i would only be prepared to do this if i already had my own doubts, or as a request from someone whom i trusted in their ability to evaluate things on a similar level as myself.
hope this makes sense.
anthony,TD...

[Mike]

you haven't yet 'fessed up' yourself!

I don't really know what I need to 'fess' TBH!

I've explained my listening V's fiddling ratio but don't really have any 'beliefs' as such, other than DIY is the least costly way to do it. But for me thats more of a fact than a belief!

Dunno what else to say.

[Clive]

I'm extremely confident in my hi-fi beliefs and consider the current ones I hold as being 'correct' at this present moment in time, simply because I trust my ears implicitly and the subjective beliefs I have then formed by using them.

I don't particularly care whether my beliefs are prejudiced or "correct" - how can there be "correct" beliefs anyway, actually beliefs are bound to be prejudiced to some extent at least. What matters most is that people have fun in what they are doing, both with kit (whether diy or not) and music. We could next comment on people's musical interests.

Some people are very competitive they have to have "the best" or have the "the best" philosophy. I'm old enough not to care what others think, I just want to enjoy the both the kit and music that I have, it's totally selfish. Others will constantly need to have "bake-offs" and "shoot-outs" but that's not for me.

[Mike]

What matters most is that people have fun in what they are doing,

Nice!

[Mike]

Oh hang on...

I DO have a belief!.

It's all about ENJOYMENT!... And I don't care if that means someone dancing about naked and rubbing their 'bits' all over a darTZeel power nose while listening to The Birdy Song or Agadoo!!!

As long as I don't have to watch!