...HIFI GUY!!!
The warning signs are starting to pile up, my friends:
-- Records, a surprising number of them, some off which are-- I kid you not-- 45rpm LPs! (An additional worry on this front: her use of the word "tactile" when describing the process of playing records.)
-- Qobuz. ("Recording quality" is now something she talks about-- a lot. Coincidence?)
-- Her purchase of a new streamer with her own money. (Sure, it was on the budget end of things-- a Wiim Pro+-- but still, and I reiterate, she bought it with her own money.)
-- Lounge/exotica. (I ask you, is this anything a kid her age should enjoy? Oh, and whistling: she's a big fan-- believe it or not-- of someone who whistles for a living(!) And Jazz, which I forgot to mention, but also figures heavily into things: the squawkier/honkier the better, apparently.)
-- Other farflung areas of musical interest. (Eclectic, that's the word, a very disturbing word-- for any parent, I would think. Why, oh why, can't she just listen to TayTay like everybody else?)
Just how worried should I be here, chums? In other respects the kid appears to be relatively normal, but this... jeez, I just don't know.
(And no, in no way do I blame myself for any of this. So what if she grew up around hifi junk? So what if 90% of her system came straight out of my audio closet? Coincidence, that's all. Yes, that's exactly what it is. Coincidence.)
The warning signs are starting to pile up, my friends:
-- Records, a surprising number of them, some off which are-- I kid you not-- 45rpm LPs! (An additional worry on this front: her use of the word "tactile" when describing the process of playing records.)
-- Qobuz. ("Recording quality" is now something she talks about-- a lot. Coincidence?)
-- Her purchase of a new streamer with her own money. (Sure, it was on the budget end of things-- a Wiim Pro+-- but still, and I reiterate, she bought it with her own money.)
-- Lounge/exotica. (I ask you, is this anything a kid her age should enjoy? Oh, and whistling: she's a big fan-- believe it or not-- of someone who whistles for a living(!) And Jazz, which I forgot to mention, but also figures heavily into things: the squawkier/honkier the better, apparently.)
-- Other farflung areas of musical interest. (Eclectic, that's the word, a very disturbing word-- for any parent, I would think. Why, oh why, can't she just listen to TayTay like everybody else?)
Just how worried should I be here, chums? In other respects the kid appears to be relatively normal, but this... jeez, I just don't know.
(And no, in no way do I blame myself for any of this. So what if she grew up around hifi junk? So what if 90% of her system came straight out of my audio closet? Coincidence, that's all. Yes, that's exactly what it is. Coincidence.)
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