Sound Quality
Is anyone else out there that reads this an audiophile like myself? haha, I guess a better question would be is there anyone else out there that reads this? 
Anyways, I’ve always loved quality sound for music, movies, games, or whatever I’m doing. Forever I would listen to the 5.1 surround sound system I had setup in my room for most any of my music needs. I got pretty used to the crisp, clear sound of the system. Well for some reason or another I took it all down and temporarily used it in the living room for watching movies, later I brought it back into my room but never hooked it back up out of laziness. Besides I wasn’t spending a whole lot of time within my room anyways. Most the time now when I was listening to music or doing anything it was on the computer where I had a pair of Yamaha speakers that sounded fairly good, later one of them died and I went to headphones because it was cheap and easy, plus better for gaming. The first pair of headphones I used was a cheap $10 pair that in all honesty sounded like crap, but I got used to them. Over the summer I got an X-Fi sound card for my computer, it was amazing, even these cheap piece of crap headphones sounded good, and they went from stereo to a good surround sound because of the X-Fi’s magical ability to use CMSS-3D which is something that Creative came up with for gamers so you can have true directional sound (say someone is sneaking up behind you in a game you can not only hear their footsteps, but they actually sound like they are behind you). This was a rather nice change for me! I decided to take full advantage of the power of this sound card and got myself a set of Turtle Beach headphones, you know, the true 5.1 surround sound headphones all the gamers drool over at LAN Parties. These headphones have such great sound quality I never even had to venture anywhere for good quality music, movies, or games! Well not long ago my dad takes me to Nebraska Furniture Mart… well we were walking around the new Legends shopping center because he hadn’t been there yet. He wanted to take me into Nebraska Furniture Mart to listen to some of the sound systems… well we listened to them for a while and then he says “These all sound pretty good, but if you want the best we’ve got to go listen to some of the Klipsche” at that point I’m just like “well what are we waiting for?” sometimes I’m a little skeptical about my dads opinion on things, but I’m always willing to check it out. So we head over to the room of uber expensive sound equipment put some Klipsche speakers and receiver on…. uh… as it turns out I’m not as technically minded as I thought because we couldn’t get it to work. After a while we finally got someone to help, the guy put a jazz CD in and let me say… those speakers had the most amazing range I’ve ever seen, well heard, in my life!
Ok, so what Cody? Where exactly is this story going? My question is how high is your sound quality? Are you running a German made 7.1 speaker system that blows the minds of the most cunning audiophiles around? or are you still listening to that mono speaker on your television? I’m not talking about in real life. Naw, I’m talking about your relationship with God. How much time are you spending in his word? How much time are you spending in silence with Him? Have you gotten used to what your current sound quality level is at? Do you even realize that there is a better alternative out there? Have you, like myself, become numb to the crap around you. Have you learned to block out that area of your life that doesn’t hold up to the amount of sound coming through. Has the cracking and popping of your life become normal? When do you plan on upgrading? And what excuses are keeping you from doing so?