... you know the price of all the equipment and the value of none of it? |
the sound of the perfect note almost brings a tear to your eye....
"no homo" |
If it's the dead of winter and you turn off your heater because you can hear it while you're listening...you would rather freeze. |
your neighbors think Dire Straits actually rehearses in your apartment nightly. |
It's the dead of winter and you turn off your heater because...the room is already too hot!
Apologies to Devilboy. |
You think the word 'coax' has two syllables. |
Your mother-in-law volunteers at the local thrift store, and calls you when a new batch of Lp's come in. |
Stopped at the thrift store today. Picked up eleven like new LP's for $2.75. A quarter each! |
You buy an album and clean, then play, the sides in numerical order. |
Your are at a hot strip club with the boys and they are drunk, rowdy and ogling.
Meanwhile you sit back and close your eyes simply enjoying the music. Later you
remark
- I think that was the original version of "The Stripper" recorded by David Rose
& his Orchestra in 1958. |
Shadorne: Keep these responses. They are worth gold to the right entertainer. |
you use an anti-static toothbrush with sorbothane pads |
your wife is 2 feet taller than you (ensures correct tweeter alignment for proper stereo imaging at all times) |
the turn indicator arm on your car has a anti-skating counter weight |
And you indicate right at the beginning and indicate left at the end of each CD |
You've had over 100 speaker systems over the past 35 years (like me). |
You steal you wifes cutting boards and micro fibre brushes to use for your system |
You steal your friends wifes cutting boards and micro fibre brushes to use for another friends system just because he did not believe you that they work and you did not want to remove your wifes from your own system. |
When house hunting, the highest priority is checking out every room for its suitability to accomodate your audio system. Sure your family matters too, but...
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You simply cannot relax in your music room without being tormented with thoughts such as: "Can we raise the ceiling? What if the room were just 3 feet wider" Geez, why didn't I take the time to run those cables under the floor? This lighting sucks! and on and on it goes. |
Rather than have expensive dental surgery, you just have your tooth pulled so that you can buy an expensive power cord.
You'd have to be NUTS to do that.
Let me introduce myself. I'm Nuts. |
And collectively the room full of toothless Audiogoners respond: "Hi Nuts" |
Hey, I figure I'll, probably, lose all my teeth, one day, anyway, so what the hell.
I may be crazy. But, I'm not stupid. Maybe I should be a Fox news anchor. |
When you have finally assembled a 450 SLC in your living room, but now want a 580.
When inordinate prices don't make you blink, but make you think "How long it will take, instead"
When you have more money in wires than in your IRA.
wHEN YOU ARE BARTERING FOR YOUR KIDS BRACES WITH A VINTAGE INTEGRATED.
wHEN YOUR SYSTEM HAS FINALLY GOTTEN EXACTLY WHERE YOU WANT IT... YOU SELL IT and start over
When even the bathroom has bass traps.
When you go to Lowes, you begin to think about just how many fiberglass panels it would take to fix all the issues.
When you start your auditionsd in the 'big room'.
...... or when you just never seem to be quite done building your rig. |
Well said Jim
I would love to hear your system if i'm ever in your neck of the woods |
Oh my God reading this stuff had me in tears..I got so many component boxes I need to rent a storage unit...... |
That's funny; I pay $50 montlhly for a storage unit just for the component boxes! I know all of my pieces will be worth more on A'gon if I have the original boxes! |
If you know what audiophile means. |
You color the edges of your toilet paper with a green marker. |
Bravo Shadorne!!! You win!!!! |
You can relate to over 90% of these posts |
You enjoy totaling up the "full retail" cost of your whole system just to shock yourself that you own such an expensive system, but refuse to tell anyone else that figure.
Use said system above to listen to listen to bootleg Springsteen concerts.
You have a party and spend much of the evening answering questions like "those blinking blue LEDs plugged into the outlets are not a security system - they're Noise Harvesters," then of course have to try to explain what a noise harvester is. |
You freak out if you can't think of anything to upgrade. |
...even Joachim Phoenix thinks you're nuts. |
You can't get off a merry-go-round. |
You plan your vacations with special stops to Audio Stores and Audio related stuff.
I took the Wife for a trip through Tennessee starting at Memphis. Surprise, Memphis just happens to be the place where Eggleston Works is located. Eggleston Works is the factory that made my Andra 2 speakers.
It sure was a nice tour of the facility. Oh, the rest of Memphis and Elvis's mansion was ok. |
You upgrade interconnects, and find yourself checking the Audiogon interconnects auctions/classifieds that same evening. |
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-- your system has reaches a place where you can stop tweaking with new parts and you become depressed. |
...When a $1500 amp is cheap but a $50 oil change is expensive 05-09-09: Samhar
-- your system has reaches a place where you can stop tweaking with new parts and you become depressed. ....I fear I'm there. |
$50 for oil!!! That's a quad of BDR #3 cones!!!! |
you really open up to your psychologist by telling him all your real problems developed mysteriously after first navigating through "Audiogon". |
Spending way too much money on gear is one thing but, turning off the heat in the winter or the A/C in the summer is going too far! It makes much more sense to re-design the HVAC system with a minimum of 25 feet of over-sized Acoustiflex ducts feeding the acoustically rated registers, keep the face velocity at the registers well below 100 feet per minute, add a return air system with face vel at 25 ft per minute or so, have a certified air balance company adjust the system to about .5 inches of water column positive pressure to keep the dust out and relocate the fan for the system to the back yard as far as possible from the sweet spot in the room. |
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you have a weekend car in your garage that you can no longer use because of the stack of empty component boxes on it... *sigh* |
when you are reading this post instead of working-isn't the extra room in the house for boxes and not guests?? |
You've shunned your family and friends by moving your listening chair to a nearfield position. |
You only have one chair in your listening room
(oh... if you have a listening room) |
You have a nice couch that seats three people for listening session and $20 HomeDepot chair for watching TV :-) |
You dedicatedly read every last one of these Responses, and realize atleast half apply to yourself.
The Canadian Customs Officials know you by name, don't even bother checking your package of the latest hand made Tube gear that you are bringing back to the States.
The Huge Transformers on your Audio Gear, heat up enough to light a cigarette off of.
It is a hundred and ten degrees in the shade, and you still turn on your Stereo System, knowing that it is going to increase your room temperature by another 20 degrees.
You carefully monitor a clock to determine how long it takes for your System to properly warm up for optimum listening. |
