@millercarbonI
I had better keep my kitchen clean at least.
Thanks for your good advice. Ha Ha
I had better keep my kitchen clean at least.
Thanks for your good advice. Ha Ha
I lied to my wife about the price of Stax 009S headphone
My wife is the youngest of my mom in law who is 88 years old.
Recently my wife is staying with her mom to take care expecting her mom can live just one more year or so.
Thus I am having happy life playing music loud even during midnight.
My house is seated on 2 acre lot so that my neighbors does not get bothered unless windows open wide.
My wife dropped at home yesterday ( She drop once a week to clean the messy kitchen while she is away. She is an angel Ha ha).
She happened to see my new headphone of Stax 009S headphone and asked its price.
I could tell her the real value ( new price 4,500$ and I got 4 months used one for 3,200$).
I did not mean to deceive her but answered it costs me 1,500$ by chance.
Then she had listened to K-Pop using both Stax 009S headphone driven by Carbon amplifier and Massdrop Empire Zeus IEM( I told her the real value as 1,000$ No lie here Hehe).
The source was Cocktail Audio X30 music server feeding Chord Dave and Mscaler ( I did not tell her how much Chord Dave and Mscaler cost, if she find out, I may have to buy her diamond necklace)
On first few songs, she prefer Empire Zeus IEM to Stax 009S headphone on lively sound of the former.
But after listening few more songs, she expressed that Stax 009S headphone sounds more natural than Empire Zeus IEM .
Whew if I had told her that I had spent 3200$ on headphone, I may have to go out to buy her something like expensive bag or clothing.
Reality is I had also spent additional 3300$ on KGSSHV Carbon headphone amplifier.
How many of your audiophile had lied to your wife or girlfriend about the cost of audio components?
I guess 98% from my 41 years of audio history.
Recently my wife is staying with her mom to take care expecting her mom can live just one more year or so.
Thus I am having happy life playing music loud even during midnight.
My house is seated on 2 acre lot so that my neighbors does not get bothered unless windows open wide.
My wife dropped at home yesterday ( She drop once a week to clean the messy kitchen while she is away. She is an angel Ha ha).
She happened to see my new headphone of Stax 009S headphone and asked its price.
I could tell her the real value ( new price 4,500$ and I got 4 months used one for 3,200$).
I did not mean to deceive her but answered it costs me 1,500$ by chance.
Then she had listened to K-Pop using both Stax 009S headphone driven by Carbon amplifier and Massdrop Empire Zeus IEM( I told her the real value as 1,000$ No lie here Hehe).
The source was Cocktail Audio X30 music server feeding Chord Dave and Mscaler ( I did not tell her how much Chord Dave and Mscaler cost, if she find out, I may have to buy her diamond necklace)
On first few songs, she prefer Empire Zeus IEM to Stax 009S headphone on lively sound of the former.
But after listening few more songs, she expressed that Stax 009S headphone sounds more natural than Empire Zeus IEM .
Whew if I had told her that I had spent 3200$ on headphone, I may have to go out to buy her something like expensive bag or clothing.
Reality is I had also spent additional 3300$ on KGSSHV Carbon headphone amplifier.
How many of your audiophile had lied to your wife or girlfriend about the cost of audio components?
I guess 98% from my 41 years of audio history.
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@lalitk Thanks a lot for reminding that I have a creativity of "Brag " about the gear. By the way I have no intention to spend 100K$ on Dac. It is not worth the cost. But I am trying to save the money for next 3 years or so to get WE vintage horn speaker which cost 300k$ and up. That is my dream speaker that I wish to get before I die. |
@ebm You belong to 2% unlikely lucky class. Most of time, I am silent about the cost of gear rather than lying. But this time, I said 1,000$ instead of 3,200$. By the way my wife insisted that I shall return 1,000$ earphone. I replied that return period had been over and as audiophile I had better keep one nice earphone which used to cost 2,200$ new three years ago. |
@frogman I will spend some money for my angel wife in the future. I had planned on Cruise trip to Mediterranean. next year But I may have to wait until my mom in law goes to heaven in peace. |
@jab Reminds me of the story of the husband who misinformed his partner about the true cost of an audio something. When the husband came home from a business trip, his wife informed him with a big smile on her face, that she sold the audio item on agon for more than he paid for it! Ha Ha It was costly frank. |
@bigkidz I also try to clean up my kitchen as best as I can. But it is not up to her standard. It is very nice of you to keep good relation with your wife by making money on audio gear rather than spending money on it. I used to listen to 2 channel only for 40 years. Then I got interest in earphone and headphone this year. Out of curiosity, I had pulled almost top end headphone combination of Stax 009S and Carbon amp. I am pretty happy with the sound. It sound natural with good details and decent dynamics. But I expect to listen to my 2 channel system more than headphone by 60:40. |
I used to tell her the true value of audio gear since we have separate accounts. She knows that my Lansche 4.1 speaker cost me more than 50k$. Stax 009S sounds musical even with slightly bright recordings. But even with those nice things, I could not tell my wife that it costs more than 3K$, since she has never experienced such headphone before. Somehow she has prejudice that all headphone and earphone shall be less than 500$. It may be because that I had never used expensive ones before this year. She even urged me to return 1k$ Empire Zeus earphone. How come earphone can cost ik$? That is what she said to me. |
My wife drive BMW 530 while I drive Mazda CX9 which works better for landscape photographer with more room for photography gear and 4 wheel drive. I had got some awards from Landscape Photography contest. I had spent more money on audio gear while my wife is interested in just upscale car (not fancy sports car). About 10 years ago, I used to drive Infiniti G35 which is a pretty nice sports car. But if I drive sports car, I tend to get speeding ticket, thus I had given up on it. I have no fantasy about sports car any more. Now it may be fair game. I also do house cleaning using vacuum in addition to some kitchen cleaning. My wife clean kitchen once a week since my work on kitchen is not up to her standard. |
@ davidgwillett It is better to keep the price of audio gear from your wife rather than lying. My wife does not ask the price of gear often. But this time she was curious about the price of headphone after she got surprised at my purchase of 1k$ earphone. I reduced the price of headphone afraid that she may get heart attack upon hearing the real price of it. She has prejudice that any headphone or earphone over 500$ is a rip off. |
@ teo_audio I am using your nice interconnect as one component of triple combination (not just double like Doug Schroeder). On 2005, I could reach the speed of 135mile(220km/hr) at Autobahn near Frankfurt, Germany. Unless they raise the speed limit to 100 mile/h in US, I do not have any intention to buy any sports car here. I do not want to play top audio system under 80db all the time. It is same as nice sports car to drive under 75 mile/h. |