Top Priced Speakers

My friends all pick on me for the amount of audio hardware that I own.  Not only do i have the most recent in surround sound receivers, but I have high end speakers that will just blow your intellect.  The sound is certainly unreal!  All my chums laugh at me they suspect that it is a waste to have such high end audio speakers.  You see, each one of us have the same taste in music.  We all like punk rock, metal, hard-core, and fundamentally anything that is loud and raucous.  Why get high end stereo speakers, they ask, when you are listening to music that is often heavily distorted?  Perhaps I sound like a snob here, but I do not think that my mates understand the sophistication of the tunes that we are listening to.  Simply because it is punk music, or metal, doesn't mean that it is noise.  On the contrary, there is a massive amount of subtlety and nuance in the tone that only good audio speakers can pick up. 

Naturally, it counts less with some of the music.  The garage punk that I was into, for example, sounds about the same thru high end speakers as it does through low end speakers.  The sound is usually muffled, poorly recorded, and made on unacceptable apparatus.  As a consequence, regardless of how pathetic the speakers you use, it really will not make much of a difference in the way that it comes thru.  For that stuff their right high end speakers really are a waste. 

But for a lot of the metal, and even some of the more innovative and experimental punk rock, the higher end speakers are truly critical.  because a type of music is noisy this not mean that it does not have a good range of sounds.  High end speakers can capture all of the sound to the music, from the screeching highs to the booming lows, and everything in between.  Without a good high end spokesperson, most of the sound is lost, and that may be a shame.  My high end speakers allow me to hear sounds that i've never heard before, and that I wouldn't hear without them.  It is my pals who are the snobs low fidelity snobs.  To them it sort of feels like it all sounds the same.  It is unfortunate that they are going to miss out on all the sonic nuances that I'm able to hear.  But that is the breaks!

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