Funny Hi-Fi quote

[Richard Ellis]

So this is the comment by an Artist?
At fifty-two I still love my music, Right now at this moment I,m listening to "Van Hagar"......the skill of Eddie.
Yes we are all trying for that ethreal nirvana that is music.
We should indeed embrace the new technology that has allowed us to listen to our music in a way that was incomprehensible thirty years ago.
Soon we will have devices no larger than a CD player that has all the music humanity has ever produced at our fingertips.
Does sheer volume substitute for quality.No of course not.
Music has and allways will be a purely human creation.
Arggg...........Eddie! Genius with a guitar!" Source of infection"
As a youngster powering up that old tube RCA console, hearing the PS start up....the 6.3 volt bayonet bulb illuminating the controls.....all seared into my brain.
The giant Packard-Bell SS console of my parents.....the exquisite cabinintry(sp?).

Buying and building the best/loudest/ highest quality gear is purely human nature & we should never rest as it is what drives us. If we stop you might as well just roll over & die.

[Vintage Pioneer Guy]

I know that this is an old Post but someone posted it today on a Facebook Audio Site.the article about Radiohead's comments! Pure Bunk and nothing else! Music played in my house since the day I was born and whatever system was used starting with a 1953 Acoustical Quad Mono Tube Amplifier with Contoller and FM Tuner feeding a huge(at that time)Stromberg-Carlson Labyrinth Speaker Cabinet and later was usually upgraded every few years so I was use to it.From glory days of " poopin' " to whatever later on I still have the system still with original tubes!

[SigloOne]

My first hi-fi experience was with my parents old Magnavox tube console stereo that had sat unused for years since the turntable stopped working. It was just a random piece of furniture in the living room. I was about 12 (around 1980) and just getting into music. I had recently discovered FM and some good rock stations. I decided to see if the old console's radio worked and powered it on, tuned it into 99.1 WPLR our of New Haven, CT and turned it up. Holy smokes! It was almost a religious experience, I was hearing music so clear and pure. I turned it up some more, since I was the only one home at the time, and at less than half volume I had the windows rattling in their frames. I miss that old console which has long since gone to the breakers. Music is still a huge part of my life, many thousands of listening hours, hundreds of concerts, and 30 years later.

[vermeero]

For some it maybe true what radiohead said... but I don't see myself in this. The last 3 years I'm enjoying the music better than ever before... really love those Yamaha NS1000. And I'm not even middle aged!

[CSlee]

I'd take anything that Radiohead say with a pinch of salt.

[john65b]

I remember in high school, a system wasn't "good" unless it was LOUD. Then, slowly, I started to appreciate other things, like how cymbals, brass horns, acoustic guitar, or a snare drum strike "should" sound. It always annoyed my High School/College friends when I put on a Spyro Gyra, or Ricky Lee Jones album.

Too bad now I cannot appreciate it even more, not that I don't have the right setup, but because of mild hearing loss from listening to Ted Nugent too loud.

Oh the irony.

[LucasAdamson]

Well, he (which ever member said it) is most certainly in his early 40's right now, as I remember "Creep" coming out in 1993, after they had been going for a few years already, so perhaps he made the comment with tongue in cheek, especially considering he is a hi-fi collector himself of sorts.

For those of you that haven't listened to Radiohead, I urge you to. For me, they are the most interesting and generally the best British band of the past 20 years. They have a fine, fine guitarist and singer, full of expression and soul. They are, I'll admit, a tad dour at times to say the least, but moving.

I strongly recommend, in order of preference:

In Rainbows (All songs)
OK Computer (Almost all songs)

They are their real classics. Their "Best of" album is easier though. For me, it's like the Stone's 40 Greatest Hits - so packed full of great great stuff you'd forgotten about.

[LucasAdamson]

Ha, I just Googled the quote - it was their (widely considered to be) brilliant lead guitarist Jonny Greenwood in Rolling Stone Magazine.