10 Ways to Come Home to Music

By Mark Fleischmann
April 16th, 2007

Audio equipment is a crock of pretentious technical jargon, a pile of useless black boxes, a plague of blinking lights, a waste of space, a needless drain on your household income—unless it brings you closer to music. Then it’s form of nutrition, a balm for the multiple beatings we take in our daily lives, maybe even a gateway to the soul. If I felt otherwise, I’d have to give up this audio-critic stuff and find another way to make a living, preferably one that paid more.            Like the proverbial tree falling in the forest, the delivery of music through an audio system takes on meaning only if someone is listening. Obviously equipment playing in an empty room is useless (unless you’re cocking an ear in the adjoining room). But the gear is almost equally useless when serenading a listener who’s only half there. Listening is like an ...

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