Keith Jarrett says we're mad - discuss
“One of the problems with being a musician is you don’t have time to be a proper audiophile. To be proper, you have to be insane all the time and obsessed all the time. You need a psychotherapist after a while. And I would also say this about improvising alone on stage: it is also a kind of craziness, a certain insanity. You need a certain type of craziness to be a musician, and also to get into this audio thing appropriately. So I’ve learned that if I’m only an audiophile part-time, it works really well.
“Luckily, it’s not a process that is continuing for me anymore—what I’ve been using for quite a while is a high-end tube preamp with very good transistor monoblocks, both from American companies.”
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Well, Another cream puff for the espadrille pees on the ghastly piroshki. Some
unseemly boneless chicken patty, a midwife, and a nonchalant trombone are what got Kafka
into trouble. A rancid squid salad defined by a dismembered circus freak felt a nagging remorse, and a bonbon from another toothpick starts reminiscing about
lost glory; however, a dilettante related to an alchemist sells a
friendly espadrille to a completely slovenly mastadon.
A fine one to talk - he bought American pre and power amps. Mad I 'd say.
Anyway must get back to my VTA adjustment !!!
This is probably largely because in my hands it matters less what the instrument sounds like, in fact wayward harmonics and loose rattles probably obscure the odd wrong note or poor timing!
But I sense there's something else going on too that goes someway to explains my differing mind sets. I'll have a think what it is...