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Horrific Confession And Puzzling Questions

In what I hope is only a frenzy of interest, passion and enthusiasm, I often play many different CDs or DVDs in one sitting -- although not in their entirety -- which leaves me wondering:

1) Have any other members experienced an attention deficit disordered frenzy of playing different tracks or watching different scenes? I seem to annoy friends and girlfriends alike with this habit.

I know we audiophiles are often criticized for caring more about sound than music which can lead to a "listen to this!! ....and now this! ...and this!! ADD behaviour...

...but I love music -- I swear -- and I used to listen to albums, symphonies, operas straight through for HOURS -- blissfully. And now, as mentioned in another thread, I just jump around like some bleary eyed junkie trying to get some happiness and satisfaction.

These frenzies result in discs being scattered all over my floor, chair, or desk etc, and to be perfectly honest, I don't take very good care of them. Many of them are scuffed or scratched, despite my meticulous care of LPs and equipment. Which leads to my other question:

2) Does this really matter? Sometimes, if discs are badly scratched, they might not be read or they might skip, but they seem to endure surprisingly rough handling. Maybe my ears are tin, but it doesn't seem to really matter. Do those disc polishing cleaning thingys do anything? Do I need one?

Maybe this is all about digital..... Anyway, that's just one of the pressing concerns in the forefront of my brain today and I thank you for listening.
cwlondon

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kthomas
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Showing off your system to somebody else tends to bring out the rapid-switching phenomena - I think that often the person you're showing it to doesn't have the innate interest in it that we do, and there's a "need" to try to get them to be wowed. When it doesn't immediately happen, it's, quick, on to the next piece, maybe that will work.

I used to listen to whole album, album after album, but then again, I used to have no kids, no stressful, time consuming job, etc. I also had less money to pursue other things I was interested in. I think part of it is the higher end system and all the audio "tricks" we like to explore, but I think part of it is just that life is a heck of a lot more distracting that it used to be.

I have a Netflix subscription and with rare exceptions, every disc I get looks like there is no way that it will play, it's so scratched up. Again with rare exceptions, they all do. Amazing. -Kirk

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