Personal Consumer Issues • Re: What are you listening to now

This guy built the ultimate sound system:

Ken Fritz built his audio system with $1.5 million and 27 years of his life. https://wapo.st/4b4QTGX

There’s an hour-long YouTube also:
https://youtu.be/4b2IOOhJmxw?si=Qt3pDE71STL424Hn

Could not read the article. But did it say how many hours a day he spent using it?

Try this link: https://wapo.st/3VyRXvJ
I’m a subscriber and I just gifted it to you.
He didn’t listen to it enough. After pouring a fortune and half his life into this project he died. Then his estate sold if off piece by piece and for a fraction of his cost. Also he neglected and alienated his family in this obsession.

Just finished reading it. Some observations.

1) "modest split-level ranch" I don't know what the rest of you consider to be "modest" but from the pictures of the house it certainly did not look "modest" to me.

2) The article never did specify how much time a day / week he actually did spend listening to music. He owned a company, which probably consumed at least 50 hours a week. Then all his other waking hours seemed to be taken up with building the system. So how much time did he actually spend listening to music? I've always had office jobs where I had limited contact with other people at those jobs so was always listening to music while working. First cassettes, then CDs. One office I had a whole system set up.

3) Neil Young wrote an excellent book several years ago. In it he was railing about how he hates the current way music if consumed, through all these compressed electronic formats. He is the ultimate purist in this area. I wanted to shout back to him, "But Neil the upper ends of our hearing have been long gone so that we cannot even hear the difference!" Right now I'm listening through just two small Bose computer speakers that I bought used for $50 from Craigslist. They sound excellent.

4) They ended up getting 15 cents on the dollar for what he built. All was used plus it was custom built for him.

5) They stated how many records he actually owned. But I kept reading references to classical except for one reference to a rock song.

I own 7,000 records and I'll bet there was almost zero overlap between our collections. The same as when I went to J. Geils's apartment in 1971 and saw his record collection, which seemed to be all blues records. I told myself we most likely have completely complementary collections.

6) Definitely a tragic family story. Why have 5 children when that is the way you are going to treat them?

7) Hopefully some day I get to see the documentary.

Thanks for allowing me to read it.

Statistics: Posted by vnatale — Thu Jun 20, 2024 7:54 pm

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