What type of Audio Guy are you? - Was there a Eureka moment? If you have figured it out, when and how did it happen? “… Interventions? How did you rein yourself in?”
Nice thread!!
Previous type: unreasonable. Pretentious. Erudite and arrogant. In short, the typical audiophile. Wearing blinders and running with scissors, seeing only what IMO is the correct item, design, or brand.
Current Type: Reasonable. More often than not. Still, dogmatic, fearful, and a severe need for my ego to be stroked routinely. Albeit, in the absence of being totally accepted by any and all, have learned, the end of the world is still a ways off.
Am a card carrying audio nut. Certifiable, yet requires quite limited supervision.
Without any financial constraints, I’m all about buying things I can’t afford, with money I don’t have, to impress people I’ve not met yet! Thankfully, I have fiduciary restrictions, and have gathered better perspectives on life.
In all, I’ve learned limitations can be an ally not strickly nemesis.
I was a budding musician playing horns from grade school thru high school and beyond. It was not cool to be a horn player. I wanted to be a Sax player but a coronet and trumpet were cheaper.
Out of the military in ‘78, the obvious choices laying before me were, to open a recording studio, pursue a career in professional Drag Bike racing, or join the Pro Bowlers Association and tour the national circuit.
Deeply pondering and thoroughly ruminating on these life altering options a woman walked into my life and I got married instead. She was my first love and music was relegated to slot number two. Racing fell by the wayside, eventually, following a few years of concerted but unsponsored ‘sportsman’ efforts.
Following life style changes and a divorce in 2002 I felt pursuing a quality audio setup was in order.
All was well, until a salesman at a local audio equipment dealership told me about this venue for buying and selling audio gear.that was the ‘epiphany’ or Pandora’s box, depending.
Six years later tons of re-education, several suprises good and bad later, I had a used BMW sitting in my living room, so to speak, effectively. Best sounding array I’d ever owned!
So I sold it.
Built one based on tubes then instead of SS. This became my second ‘epiphany’ and THE very best sounding rig I have owned to date.
Of course, I’m wide open now and the ONLY focus for me is how to improve my system. Around 2012 or so life ‘intervened’. On several fronts and my rig was laid waste to put funds to home security, self defense, and some major medical concerns cropped up.
Life has a way of setteling the playing field from what is thought to be, and what is, important.
This next affair is going to be about musical enjoyment. Having a rig which enables playback of as much media as is possible, rather than a system which plays but SOME media incredibly well and most others just plain aren’t worth putting on it.
Or…. Having a highly resolving extremely detailed outfit that is superior with some media, and one Bose rig for all the other files the main system only reveals as substandard.
That said, I’m still a kid in a candy store IF sufficient funds are in place and I’ll have little issue with rubbing old shoulders with previous narrow perspectives! Albeit, IF synergy itself can prevail front to back so jaw rests solidly on floor time and time again during playback sessions.
Am looking for enough detail and transparency so I can tell what perfume the female singer is wearing but not so much as to know if the band is working ‘commando’ style or not. See? Now, that is being reasonable.