Things we cannot be bothered by anymore

Renting/leasing a Nissan forklift to raise my amp while I dust under it.

Speaker grilles

Pop up ads on vinyl. They really mess with the stylus in a bad way.

Kiosks and/or self-service of any kind.  It's really difficult to hold the mirror AND the Dremel during a DYI root canal.

Those who preach that the stuff inside our audio gear is created by a higher power and we mere mortals shouldn't mess with it.

Forums with no sense of humor.

Extra large concert venues

Politics that I have no control over

looking at house for sale that are 40% overpriced 

Filling the car with gas, oil change and all car services

(Bought an ev in 2023)

listening to people comparing new music and classic rock

(laptop music vs actually excelling on playing an instrument)

BS trends that folks are lining up for like Sheeple

Music artist Genre jumping because they can’t come up with anything original in their own genre

@hilde45 +1.

Appreciating and experiencing incredible sound without the manic need to own it right then and there ... not easy 

Approaching demos with the mindset of "what is weak here" before even firing it up, then leaning into a listening positing looking for faults - this is my own character defect in life overall - WIP 

I’m done going to see & hear great musicians in even moderate sized venues whose sound gets ruined by big line array speaker systems digitally amplified. Most of the beautiful nuance, detail, tone etc. of their fine skills played on great instruments is lost. My pretty good home system does a better job communicating all this than any live concert I’ve seen in several years. Small venues like a nightclub or cafe is all I’ll consider now but there aren’t that many left anymore. 

YouTube videos that over hype products. “This will destroy all others” or “The last    “blah blah” you’ll ever need”. “Holy Grail.” And my all time favorite “Giant Killer”.

Leaf blowers and the folks that used them.

In general:

How politics has seemed to now permeate every facet of our lives and every single topic ever discussed, no matter how irrelevant;

Audio specific:

Hyperbolic overmarketing of opinion as fact. If you want me to pay attention, just tell me WHY you think something is cool (and please, a few factual data points to back up your points - or even a comparison to show superiority... OR just say "I don't really know why this is so cool - I just like it!")

@curiousjim 

Excellent - and then of course there is "punches above its weight" - what weight?

And this ties into the infamous loophole in all YT reviews, "best in its price class" - seems sort of limiting in that other products "punch above their weight" eh? 

@carlso63 I think most people would agree about the intrusion of politics into so many aspects of life.

I blame it on the voters. Stop voting for control-freak, narcissistic, far right and far left politicians who are unable to process and address the views of 90% of society. Vote for throughtful and maybe even compassionate centrists/moderates willing to listen to more points of view.

That’s the only way. Otherwise we will all live in the h-lll we ourselves as voters  create trying to always stick it to the other guy and get our own way, no matter what the effect it may have on others or society as a whole.

Very selfish!!!!!! I guess it's  simply a part (luckily not the whole) of human nature that we should all learn to get a handle on.

Cheers!

No land with very polarized ideologies has stayed as a unified land/entity for too long (in the history of humanity)..

Major powers constantly produce disinformation campaigns to weaken each other in that regard (divide & conquer). Relatively simple minded critters that form the majority of a population don't have much choice in the matter, except fall for it..requires more intuition and iq to look through it. 

Some cultures are more resilient, some are not.

Vote for throughtful and maybe even compassionate centrists/moderates willing to listen to more points of view.

@deep_333 I agree.  It's hard to get diverse populations to get along much less see eye to eye.   But that's pretty much what this country is about and supposedly makes it great and a place diverse peoples want to live in...all that melting pot stuff.  Maybe we are doomed to fail in the end, or maybe we truly are "great" and make it so.   Nothing lasts forever.  THat much is for sure.

If the US splits in the near future, it will probably be based on right wing or left wing ideology...not religion, race or ethnicity.

The US is not some one of a kind cultural melting pot. Melting pots have existed in different parts of the world for thousands of years (India, Africa, etc).

@deep_333 I agree. It’s hard to get diverse populations to get along much less see eye to eye. But that’s pretty much what this country is about and supposedly makes it great and a place diverse peoples want to live in...all that melting pot stuff. Maybe we are doomed to fail in the end, or maybe we truly are "great" and make it so. Nothing lasts forever. THat much is for sure.

" Nothing lasts forever ". How do you know it, man ?

Regretting telling my wife it's called menopause because mad cow disease was taken. I mean, what happened to forgive and forget??!

@mapman 

When 53% of the US population reads at a 5th grade level or lower,don’t expect folks to make educated decisions regarding our leaders 

Critical thinking is out the window 

Oh yea it’s not the elected leaders

Its the  $36 trillion of debt that will end us

Can’t be bothered anymore with …

powercords,interconnects and speaker cables that are stiff/heavy enough to move equipment or have broken inputs or iec’s 
exotic footers and platforms that make marginal difference and are ridiculously expensive. 
exotic contact enhancers that get on everything
magical fuses and all the audio jewelry that is as costly as new components  

I’m guilty of having fallen trap to all of the above for many tens of thousands of dollars.
Now just want to plug it in and enjoy the music.   
 

The world and audio, and life  became so complicated to be bothered by anything

Cannot be bothered by no tolerance for pops here and there on an original vinyl pressing of Mingus' "The Clown" that sounds infinitely better than any $50 reissue ,,, and I just listened to both. 

Anything out in the world that may rob me of the joy I find in music ... there is a time and place to head down the spiral of despair, whatever the cause, however, not when I am locked into a groove - that is my sacred space - and that will not be forfeited - full stop. 

LOL! I cannot be bothered with my vinyl anymore either.  First, I don't think that on my system, and without a mega $10K plus turntable, phone preamp, cartridge, etc., vinyl has any thing on digital.  Plus, my 800+ albums from the 70's, although I used a DiscWasher and a ZeroStat religiously, and had a Thorens TT, still have plenty of surface noise and clicks and pops that I can't imagine would sound any better on a megabucks rig.  Then there is the constant needle drop, the getting up from my listening chair to change albums or flip sides, etc.  With all my albums digitized, with streaming and with Roon, with music curated by Roon after the album is over, I CAN'T BE BOTHERED!

@ozzy62 

3) speakers that fall flat when trying to reproduce Tool at 95 db

Saw them again last year and 95dB was only a brief stop on the way to 108dB.

My tinnitus was whispering in my ear to "keep the ear plugs in", but Pneuma started up and it was "screw it". 

You only live once.

At this stage in my life I do not allow anything to bother me.  I focus on what I can control, which is self.  That which is beyond my control is not relevant. 

My peeve is;

"Built like a tank."

"HEY, KIDZ!  Get off on whatever it is you're try to get off on elsewhere!"

(....the subs kick in, the frequency going subsonic....the dispersing crowd suddenly drops into crouches' as convulsive defecation begins.....)

...yeah....pretty vicious....;)

@dbyni  

Should I add listening to blowhards claiming perfected hearing after 40 odd years in an opera house and or types boasting of disposable cash. Of course their speakers to tweaks are the prettiest and best that with which they’ll push onto anybody that’ll listen. This was fun.. cheers ! 

I can't be bothered with silly things like listening to music in any way/format. I just want to read/talk about all the marvelous equipment to achieve Nirvana for music listening; specially if the equipment is over $100,000.

Can't be bothered with knowing what to do with my defunct 500+ CD collection. Removing them and having empty shelves with nothing to put on them. All that money, wasted!!

Perhaps, had I known streaming was only 35 years away I wouldn't have bothered with CD .... lol

I can't be bothered reading this post anymore.... Oh wait, damn I just read the whole thing.

EDIT:  I can't be bothered with weather or not I contradict myself. I'll just open my mouth. Maybe my contradictions will start a meaningful conversation.

Yes the prices of concerts...OMG...no way am I paying. 

Can't bee bothered with stupid cable deniers ...😉

People who believe complex issues have simple solutions, bye bye critical thinking skills.

Far too many cd's and vinyl stored all over the house, unused, what to do with them, complete hoarder.

People that believe political ideology is a defining attribute. 

People that believe they have the ability to understand a hobbyist's motivation for "overspending" on their system.

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Posters who assume that everybody lives in the USA

Let me recount my list of things no longer interested or bothered with:

1. Those who insist their 1000 dollar cables sound better than my normally priced ones. I will never find out if they do because I am not foolish enough to squander my hard earned money into anything that makes such outlandish claims.

2. those who make the assertion that raising the cables off the floor makes a difference...I call that total BS and I dont care who likes my opinion. :)

3. Anyone who insists that class AB is better sounding than a well executed class D. Sorry folks the measurements and listening tests say othrwis.

4.

Speakers that weigh 700 pounds each and cost 6 figures

Cables that cost five figures

Tweaks that cost 3 or 4 figures

Come to think of it, high end audio period! Too much overpriced, overhyped stuff that sounds no better than stuff made 20 years ago.

Paying attention to half wits who claim all Dacs sound the same.

Y'all are having too much fun...(summoning the dream police) *beep*chatterchatter*Boop/Beep* 

Yeah, I'll hold....(azhole)....*mute*

Y'all stay still....

All DACs' do sound the same....*dangles bait before meat grinder*

*eyes soapbox* noo....

HERE...we find respite from all that noise 'out there' ...hopefully, not always...it's difficult to disconnect reality v. one's desire for simplicity and need of 'pause for one's cause', whatever that may be.
Ours is That Sound That We Seek.
Good luck on getting There.

We may need it.

I cannnot be bothered with endless discussions on particular cable superiority regardless of the kind of cable it is.

* - listening to modern rock and roll and whatever millennials call music today...

* - No Effin rap please, or hip hop, or Nine Inch Nails. No please. Music needs to coddle me and uplift me, help me relax, soothe my tortured soul, and make me feel human again. Classical, blues, some older rock and even folk music ( I know you guys hate that ). Sometimes its like drinking wine at a beer party or drinking beer at a wine party. But sometimes I just dont want what everyone else is having. If all I had to listen to was so called modern music, I would just give up and not listen to anything. I guess that makes me officially an old fart. I don't care, it is what it is.

@richardbrand 

Posters who assume that everybody lives in the USA

To our friends to the North: Your new US passports are in the mail 😂🤣😂

Not so fast!

Check their plaid shirt pockets for contraband poutine and fentanyl!

@livinon2wheels ,

Don't tell me you didn't watch that awesome halftime show with all the finger pointing, tip toe strutting and deep, meaningful lyrics??!

In light of the SB half-time show....

Cannot be bothered with the never ending cycle of old people saying to young people "that's not even real music / I can't understand any of the words!!"

Sheeeeesh....

More can't be bothered with ads that declare;

"Built like a tank."

"Punches way above it's weight."

"Giant killer."

And my all time favorite; "My loss is your gain!"

@johnnotkathi ,

I know, right?

Silly old people for liking their music created by actual musicians...

@thecarpathian ,

Yes, definitely silly (among other things), for not considering them "actual musicians."  Typical old people...."cannot understand the words.....their hair is too long.....they need a bath.....it's too loud....they can't even play their instruments.....it's just screaming...that's not real music....it's too fast...blah...blah...blah.  Thanks for embodying my point....

+1 @ vetsc5 Exactly stated Succinct,,,