My·o·pi·a
Posted on | April 24, 2008 |
As a follow-up to yesterday’s client question, it makes me remember that everyone gets obsessed about what’s on their radar. Ever realize that you never notice something until someone mentions it?
A few years back my wife was considering getting a Honda CR-V. She wasn’t familiar with the model (it was for sale on her employer’s BBS…a few years old with low miles so it caught her eye) and asked me if anyone drove them. I told her, “they’re all over the place.” After that, it seemed everywhere she drove she saw a CR-V.
Same thing with audio gear. People tend to get obsessed with what processors a mastering engineer uses. Is it analog? Is it tube? Is it hardware digital or plug-in digital?
However, I don’t get a lot of people asking about what converters I use, power amps, speaker cable, interconnects or speakers. All of these things are infinitely more important than what equalizer I use. I mean, I may not even use an equalizer on your project. But I can’t determine that without a pristine signal chain letting me know what your music really sounds like.
This is the way of the world, though. People start hearing about or seeing something and they fixate on it.
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