Audio Inequality:
I like to think of myself as something of an audiophile, an enthusiast really - forever tweaking, getting my music to sound ju—-st right (if you know what I mean). So it’s somewhat embarassing to admit that my Audigy soundcard is going to waste, as I rely on a pair of really crappy speakers for my audio fulfillment here on this machine. I hate your weak-ass, distortion-packed, reverb-challenged, kill-me-now, pathetic excuse for something pretending to be quality equipment, click and scratch when adjusting the volume - not to mention ugly - pieces of shit!
How I miss my Technics receiver, and the 2x300w (RMS), 4-way (15” woofer, 3” mid-range, 2” tweeter, 1” supertweeter) floor-speakers, plus my Bose satellites - all of which I bought freshman year in College to scare the living shit out of the guy upstairs who thought his Creative multimedia set was going to keep me awake at night. They’re back in my apartment in the US right now, just waiting to be cranked up.
Investing in something better this side is totally out of the question! I’d have to spend at least $160 to get something that I could pick up for half that in the US, seriously. I’m not a cheap-ass, but I refuse to be ripped off like that for stuff that I’ll be ditching when I head to Canada in May.
In the meantime, I have my amazingly delicious Sony Fontopia 20th Anniversary Edition earphones to soothe my ears. It’s astonishing how these little babies, together with my iPAQ mp3 player (picked it up for $60 as an ‘open item’ at BestBuy with 128mb included - it’s small and gets the job done), make any track sound infintely better than one could ever imagine it to be when listening to it on the speakers. I love how all the little nuaces of a piece are revealed, a beat here, a scratch there, a chord in the background - things that you didn’t pick up from the speakers - it’s like you’re listening to it for the first time!
