How do you get Happy as an Audiophile?


There’s an interesting, relatively modern take on mental health called Positive Psychology. While not without it’s faults and detractors, PP has a very interesting approach. Instead of asking questions on the axis of illness and diagnosis PP asks questions on the scale of happiness:

What is it that makes you more or less content with your life and in your pursuits? How can these actions, events or states be codified and applied as general principles?

In the spirit of PP then I ask:

How do you get happy? What advice would you give an audiophile that asks "What is satisfying about being an audiophile, and what are the approaches that get me there? Do you personally know the answers for yourself? "

erik_squires

Music Makes Me Happy

 

Or, maybe it just gets me High...

 

 

Perhaps the danger of equipment can be like desperately smoking as many cigarettes as one can, in order to quit.

What makes me the happiest is when I turn on the tubes. And all of them light up and work perfectly. 

Hearing/noticing new sounds or depths of the sounds on my records and realizing how good my favorite records sound. When time passes and you don't realize it - when my measure of time is in albums/sides of albums.

I find that whenever I do something and I am not aware of time passing I am happy. I feel sorry for clock watchers.

I have a buying habit,which ,at the present time I have under control .Well hopefully....So at the present time just playing and listening to my equipment.....lol