How Do You Live The Audiophile Life

@erik_squires  per 12:24am...+1K 👍

@alfa100 , sounds like a well balanced and thoughtful approach....*S*

I guess the 20 step program and the electroshocks worked....;)

" I have done all this and years since starting I’ve got it right , well just about."

*G* Nobody gets it completely 'right', mho.....  After awhile, chasing the carrot just gets to  you...

alfa, I think that is the Impossible Dream...

If we knew Then what we know Now....this conversation wouldn't be occcuring in all likelyhood.  And perhaps everyone else would be subject to that knowledge as well....

"Another fine mess we'd get ourselves into!"....to paraphase, loosely...;)

Well enough left alone for conjecture.....*s*

alfa, and cd318....*s* Yes, there's the 'black hole' tug to ascend/plumb the range of audiophila....Add this, tweak that, speakers rivaling the monolith of 2001, padding the 'listening den' enough so it looks less 'room' then padded cell....

Which there are those that would consider that last item as a fit analogy. ;)

If one finds self talking to family/friend/coworker/stranger at an event about audio to the point of not noticing glazed eyes to the point of concrete....

If 'Restrait' becomes necessary.....You're doomed, a terminal case. *L*

cd, I'd like to have some of the old equipment I've owned.  Knowing what I know now, I wager I could still startle you, if only for the momentary lapse of reason....

The specs of SOTA haven't improved that much, unless one possesses a startling pair of ears, and the 'wetware' to process with them.

I make no claim to owning such....I prefer to listent to the music, given 'what' I call 'music' and what I enjoy hearing....for fun, for 'acting analytical', or just trying to see if I can break what I've made.

I own nothing that would destroy my finances if it goes *foom*.
A mix of old, vintage, new (mostly 'pro' audio; I like 'flexibility'), some items that have 'rubbed my the Right way'...

The list likely would impress none...esp. here on AG.
I've noticed there's a significant population of those with a similar 'bent'.  Old isn't bad, per se....if you like it, it's Good to Go.

My Spotify play list plays for nearly 48 hours.....and doesn't count the bookmarks made in Chrome.  And it's all over the board as to what...

As of now, my 'pile' is undergoing a major 'revamp'.
Parts of which a child can operate.
The balance begins to need an operational manual....even for me. *L*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6twhXA1Gyw

...but I'm still listening to Enjoy...and typically loud....;)

"Get busy", indeed....

*L* Well said, gk...and for self, I've got enough 'addictions' already.

"Never did nothin' that my spirit couldn't kill..."
Goddamn the Pusher Man" Steppenwolf.

....with exceptions that general idiocy have brought on....tobacco, sugar, meat, coffee, sex, sleep..*LOL*  Y'know...those things....

But I do resonate with your example when it comes to the original Ohm speakers....and that was nearly 50 years ago....

...somes things just mess you up for life....*L*

cd, I suspect a SO somewhere 'modded' the door to the audio cave door with a lock on the exterior ONLY....👀!  (🤷‍♀️*L*)

The reason and rationale could likely be understood, given 'extenuating' circumstanse....extremism begets extreme response, in relationships as well as audio pursuits....but all of this is mere conjecture on my part. *G*

@knotscott, +1....Breathing new life into some vintage things is a reward unto itself...*S*  "Returning to one's roots' is just as valid (imho) as chasing SOTA....

Those objects may have begun your 'obsession'....so there's a certain degree of joy in engaging in some 'introspection' as to what lit your fire in the first place. ;)

Spouse & self took great satisfaction in taking a 1907 Victorian bungalow back in SF and getting it ready for it's next century.

Absolutely no qualms about doing the same for 'vintage' anything should be the same, frankly.....unless the item has achieved some sort of status of 'religious worship' amongst 'those that know'.  Then it's better to send it on it's way, and let someone else default virgin status...*L*

Hi, cd...*G*  I keep thinking about a line from Laurie Anderson....

"Are things getting better?  Or are things getting worse?"

I suspect we've all gotten to plumb that ying/yang well enough to finally 'go with the flow', but give it a directive 'tap' to keep from getting drowned or beached....*L*   The Lockdown Lowdown luckily hasn't effected us as a
couple or as a business entity to any great degree...other than making us look like the rest of the masked hoard.  Part of the daily details....life 'n strife continue....

My 'audioexodus' has been a sorid and assorted mortal coil all it's own.  No 350 r/t's (but I'll bet it was worth it , wasn't it? *G*) involved, but from 'meh' to 'medium rare, warm center' with artichoke and a Real Caesar salad with a good red took some time. ;)

I/we had our 'quiet time', when audio had to 'go on mute' for awhile; I think that can occur for many reasons, and we had ours....

It's returned with a vaguely reduced roar....;)  Currently, SAF is happy that I'm engaged in my 'preoccupation' with things dipole and omni.  As long as the SMGa Maggies' exist in the pending living room....no concern over being trapped in anything approaching a padded anything. *L*

Turntable mods....*L*  Tangetal truant, I confess.  Looking to 'mod' an SL8 Rabco that used to be a daily driver.  Actually Own an ST4!  Noisy critter, bought for 25$ new, in box, from a dealer that couldn't move it....
(Bought just because it was there and needed a home where it may be laughed at, but loved just for what it is...weird. *L*)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC6YLH02jeg

This says it all better than I could ever....;)

Cheers, Jerry

GK, re 'pop quiz'...

They'd still be arguing over it....more likely to come to blows (not 'blow', BLOWS....fisticuffs, *wack, wack*, bloody encounters....)....

Some must be making $, Eu, Something.....otherwise we'd have 0 to rant 'n rave over, either.... *L*

I'm still on the fence re Bluetoothed speakers....more stuff 'twixt sound waves in my personal atmosphere space place...

(...but it's a Beautiful Day in WNC, the spouses' Bday, a nice dinner out reserved....so I'm just being the Devils' right-handed left foot...for now...)

;)  Carrie On, sister of.....

GK, being on the cusp of a major revamp of my 'system' and its' 'systemic problems' I will keep your words of wisdom in my head....

...next to the better Buddhist side of my psyche', while the Nihilist on the other side, alongside the existentialist debate as to a response and the means to an end of the venture....

(Fortunately, the desktop system remains above the upcoming fray and provides a means of retreat....)

Just another assumed weekend project.
That takes the week.....*L*