My friends all make fun of me for the amount of audio appliances that I own.  Not only do i have the latest in surround sound receivers, but I have high end speakers which will just blow your intellect.  The sound is certainly unreal!  All my chums giggle at me they believe that it is a waste to have such high end audio speakers.  You see, all of us have the same taste in music.  We all like punk rock, metal, hard-core, and fundamentally anything that’s loud and raucous.  Why get high end stereo speakers, they ask, when you are listening to music that’s regularly heavily distorted?  Maybe I sound like a snob here, but I don’t think that my friends understand the class of the tunes that we are listening to.  Just because it is punk music, or metal, doesn’t mean that it is noise.  On the contrary, there is a large amount of subtlety and nuance in the tone that only good audio speakers can pick up. 

Naturally, it matters less with some of the music.  The garage punk that I was into, for instance, sounds about the same thru high end speakers as it does thru low end speakers.  The sound is usually muffled, poorly recorded, and made on substandard hardware.  As a consequence, no matter how pathetic the speakers you use, it truly won’t make much of a difference in the way that it comes through.  For that stuff their right high end speakers really are a waste. 

But for lots of the metal, and even some of the more innovative and experimental punk rock, the higher end speakers are really crucial.  Simply because a kind of music is noisy this not mean that it does not have a good range of sounds.  High end speakers can capture all the sound to the music, from the screeching highs to the booming lows, and everything between.  Without using a good high end speaker, such a lot of the sound is lost, and that’s a shame.  My high end speakers allow me to hear sounds that I have never heard before, and that I would not hear without them.  It is my friends who are the snobs low fidelity snobs.  To them it seems like it all sounds the same.  It is unfortunate that they are going to miss out on all the sonic nuances that I get to hear.  But that is the breaks!

Whilst we’re talking about speakers we should mention the Bose Wave sound. It’s a brilliant system for those who don’t have room for a system with big speakers. To read reviews, specifications and news of the latest Bose Wave systems then visit the www.bosewaveblog.co.uk.

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