HiFi Thoughts

When the feeling moves me, I post brief hifi-related messages to the TM Instagram page in the form of stories.

I bet we’ve all seen people guessing this number along with forecasts of doom and gloom for the industry at large. Are they right?

Is it the re-creation of a live performance? To live up to some abstract ideal? Faithfully reproduce a recording of an event that in many cases never happened?

Audiophiles, and I consider myself one, are funny.

The year was 1980 and I had fulfilled my end of my father’s bargain; having completed 1 year at a “normal” college with a 4.0 GPA I could, as the agreement allowed, attend The School of Visual Arts (SVA) in NYC.

If you read damn near any article about the state of hifi affairs you will most certainly be led to believe it is, at best, on life support.

Nostalgia is a funny thing.

It’s not complicated.

Imagine it’s back in the days when people used paper maps and some travelers are not sure which way to go at a fork in the road. Luckily there’s a gas station at the intersection so they stop to ask for directions.

Time is funny—an hour can feel like a second, a day can feel like a week, a week can feel like a month, and a month can feel like a minute.

I tried looking for specs on the Angels Horn H019 Hi-Fi Bluetooth Turntable with Built-in Speakers vintage record player featured in a recent Wirecutter article but the extent of the speaker specs is—4—which sit directly under the turntable.

Music discovery is among my very favorite things.

Let me explain.

We live in a funny world, which isn’t funny at all most of the time, and one of the funniest notions in hifi is that the value of listening to music is best determined by a measured approach devoid of emotion.

I don’t know much about economics, but I know what I like.