Bushmaster DAC burn-in

[The Vinyl Adventure]

I'm in my twenties ...
Most of my mates want my hifi ...
It's not a lost cause
Its always old fuggies who think the youth won't keep up with hifi
Just because we have more mp3s etc listened to by the majority that we hear about and see all over the show doesn't mean these isn't a minority who are interested in hifi

And don't forget, at least all this portable music is bringing more music to more people easier ... Especially when you take spotify into account!

Oh yeah, and who fucking cares if hifi dies out beyond whatever generation you are ... It won't effect you, you will be dead!

[MartinT]

out comes an i-phone and an egg shaped contraption that extends out to make a loudspeaker.

Count yourself lucky they didn't put the effing iPhone on its internal speaker. Quite how anyone can listen to the resulting nasty screech is beyond me.

[Macca]

I'm in my twenties ...
Most of my mates want my hifi ...
It's not a lost cause
!

Like to think that is true - in fact I did offer to lend them a system - the house is detached and has a huge empty lounge and he said yeah okay but hasn't got back to me. What can you do?

[The Vinyl Adventure]

Nothing!
You can't force people to have a hobby which is effectively what you are proposing!
In the same way there will always be people who want to take better photos, want to play golf or want to bazz up their cars there will always be people who want good sound quality!
People who aren't interested aren't interested
People who are are ... Those that don't know they are will find they are eventually ... That's just the way it is ...

[Darren]

Reminds me - I went to a poker game at a friend of a friend's recently. Lovely place but rented so there was hardly any furniture so we were playing on the kitchen table. They are all 'youngsters' i.e in their twenties. Someone called for some sounds so out comes an i-phone and an egg shaped contraption that extends out to make a loudspeaker. One 2 inch driver firing upwards.

I jokingly suggested that we have the next game around my place because I have stereo sound. They were nonplussed.

Yes Macca, but did you win any money?

[Macca]

NO, I wasn't forcing anything. Thye had no sounds so I said look I have spare kit I will lend you amps and speakers just plug your telephones into that. Send a car round I'll load it up and set it all up for you. That's not getting anyone into a hobby - it's trying to clear some space in my house

[Macca]

Yes Macca, but did you win any money?

Well, on that occasion I lost a little. But I was very, very drunk...

[The Vinyl Adventure]

Still requires them to care about better sound quality ... And want it enough to have your unwanted stuff taking up space in thier house!
I could loan loads of my mates cameras ... Would they use them over thier phones ... Nope!
A couple of my mates have got into photography with my help as there was an initial interest ... A couple have bought hifis ...
But few share the passion to the point of spending the 10's of thousands on the hobbies like I have ... It's all about the person, what they want out of thier lives etc
What you see as offering to show them the light in an easy way as possible for them, to them is just not even on their radar as something of interest ... Different strokes etc...

An analogy that springs to mind is the street preacher or door knocking jahovas witness ... To them it seems crazy that you don't listen, to you they are haut a nut with a different pov!

[Macca]

You're right - knocking on doors is useless - we have to get them while they are young - compulsory hi-fi lessons in primary school, that's my big idea. Set up a system in the gymnasium (or whatever they have these days, a holodeck or somthing probably) and bring them in a class at a time, let them play their own tapes, Backstreet Boys or whatever - I think that would work.

I recall when Benjemin Britain died the whole junior school had to assemble in the gym and the Headmistress sat at the front and played us his records. My visual memory has it that she used an old fashioned gramphone but I think that must be an embellishment.

[Barry]

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Then amongst the pile I dug out The Trinity Sessions by the Cowboy Junkies. Aha I thought... an old hifi testing standard. In fact I recalled a magazine many years ago claiming to use 'Mining for Gold' as the way of testing your systems resolution ( if you can hear the foot taps on the stage creating a deep rhythm at the start). Well.. Because I'm domestically restricted to small stand mounts, I've never really had the bass resolution to hear this properly.. Until last night of course. The little Harbeths really can dig deep.
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Foot taps? I've always thought it was the fan in the air-conditioning or heater unit. You can definitely hear the sound of air being blown around.