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Not all desktop speakers are created equal. I have this set and it sounds great connected to my iMac.
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Sep 30, 2013 - 9:00 PM
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My generation is also much worse off than yours was financially, and is often constantly moving from crappy apartment to crappy apartment and can't afford a lot -- especially expensive sound systems.
That's one of the big modern day myths... that boomers always had it easy. Nothing could be further from the truth. I washed dishes, worked on farms, pumped gas, stocked shelves, mowed lawns, lived in $10/week rooms, various other shacks, etc, etc etc before I got plugged into a hi-tech profession.
When I was poor I listened to my friends stereo; when I had money I got my own with a decent size set of speakers. 
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A good subwoofer can make a big difference.
hate 'em
brm
The big woofers? Really? I'd have thought otherwise! 
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Oct 1, 2013 - 9:06 AM
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Not all desktop speakers are created equal. I have this set and it sounds great connected to my iMac.
Those are really lovely, but I blame Apple and Steve Jobs for successfully hocking the less is more compressed music that has taken over the world, and killed almost every record store.
Wow, you put a lot on their shoulders how about blaming those guys who invented the internet and Bill Gates for Microsoft with all his sharing programmes!
Yeah maybe, but Jobs successfully sold the idea of the total convenience of downloaded songs stored on the IPOD, Iphone etc, and sold a whole lot of those things, and they still are. The growth of the smart phone industry, and with it, downloaded music, exploded because of Apple to me. We are talking millions of unit here and if even if only half of these owners started downloading any amount of music at all, that is an enormous change.
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Not all desktop speakers are created equal. I have this set and it sounds great connected to my iMac.
Re: Those are really lovely, but I blame Apple and Steve Jobs for successfully hocking the less is more compressed music that has taken over the world, and killed almost every record store.
So you want to go back to having to pull out individual LPs or tapes or CDs and NOT have the ease of an MP3 player? While half of my music is classical and a lot of it ranges from 20 to even 60 minutes in length, I still have nearly 19,000 different tracks on my 160GB iPod. So when I'm away from the house I have a huge selection of my favorite music at my fingertips that sounds to me almost as good as it does at home on my elaborate system. But about 2 years ago, just a day before I was to leave for a week in Montana with my parents, my iPod went out and I took a portable DiscMan (I know: I should have marched back to the Apple Store and either fixed it or gotten another). So I had this CD wallet with about 48 different CDs, and it was quite awkward juggling them. Frankly, it was a nightmare, and boy, did it make me appreciate my iPod!!! So I celebrate these amazing devices and, yes, I miss all my neighborhood record stores (I even started a thread here about some of them), but there are too many advantages that easily outweigh any real or imagined DISadvantages.
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Oct 1, 2013 - 11:00 AM
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Not all desktop speakers are created equal. I have this set and it sounds great connected to my iMac.
Re: Those are really lovely, but I blame Apple and Steve Jobs for successfully hocking the less is more compressed music that has taken over the world, and killed almost every record store.
@ Ron
Oh I understand that it is very convenient. But convenient is not quality. Technology is also not quality. What I am working against here is the broad assumption that newer technology is an absolute good, and I know that this is a lost battle with most people, because most people think if they like something there is nothing lost or negative about that. There is a definite negative and loss about the good and success of the Apple product. There is a loss, in lots of ways.
It is surely nice you can access tracks on your iPod. But I wonder if the ease with which people access music deprecates the appreciation of music as an pure experience. What I am saying that it is the exact same convenience of this, that you can access 19000 tracks while you are on the train, riding your bike, doing your laundry, eating, mowing the lawn, that might well deprecate the direct and focused consumption of the music. In effect the impact of the Ipod is all music becomes underscore to everything in life. So while at the same time enabling access and making it easier to organize and all that, it also makes it easier to take for granted, and ironically make it a less important part of life, rather than a more important part of life.
It could be compared to a buffet, if you have a well prepared meal on a dinner table I think you might enjoy it more than an entire table with endless choices that you could eat as much as you want. Alas we are a consumption culture where more is better, instead of better is better as in quality is better. Quantity and choice are better, all the while our appetite for music (or other things) might well not be refined, or the product enjoyed more because of it.
Also, most people do not understand the impact of music compression, Jobs and Apple were, are, very successful at making the public thing that there is no difference between a compressed track and a CD or an LP, but there is a difference,. Unfortunately the generation we are talking about now are being raised to never know anything better.
There are a lot of people in the world who would not grasp a bit of what I just said, but this is a score lover forum, so I would hope someone gets this.
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As for Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon"...it's a classic recording that absolutely rocks. Many film music fans can appreciate it alongside Bach or Beethoven or Delius and can also enjoy Puccini and Mozart AND hold John Williams and Jerry Goldsmith in EQUAL esteem.
Being afflicted with limitations is a sad thing.
Ohhh yeah, I appreciate your lines, Ron. You are absolutely true!!!
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