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  You know you're an audiophile if--
You just got a pair of speakers you can barely move yourself (inverse proportionality with age probably too)

The first house you bought cost less than your current stereo investment (ditto)

You have boxes of cables with which you don't know what to do
Vermonter  (System | Threads | Answers | This Thread)

02-06-09
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02-06-09   You believe that accuracy is the pinnacle of sonic excellenc ...   Mrtennis

02-06-09   You're here posting into the audiogon forums instead of list ...   Viridian

02-06-09   You audition an amplifier that your really love and it sound ...   Davt

02-06-09   ...you have a pair of interconnects or phono cartridge that ...   Thsalmon

02-06-09   You know that bybee bullets don't go in a gun!!   Azjake

02-06-09   .... to truly be an absolute undeniable audiophile......... ...   Has2be

02-06-09   Your equipment is "analogue" rather than "ana ...   Eldartford

02-06-09   Your partner says they are feeling 'horny', and you immediat ...   Gawdbless

02-06-09   Hearing from your ex-girlfriend, "there is too much ste ...   Vermonter

02-06-09   You find yourself at a dinner party explaining why some peop ...   Danmyers

02-06-09   When you are several steps into 'quitting the spending' an ...   Philjolet

02-06-09   Even though it was an upgrade, you kinda wince when you see ...   Vermonter

02-06-09   Your guest room closet is a holding place for what you call ...   Vermonter

02-06-09   ....... it's friday night and you're adding to or reading a ...   Mitchchavis

02-06-09   You're on a first name basis with the ups deliveryman. you ...   Markphd

02-06-09   You have to step over a speaker cable to get into your bathr ...   Ejlif

02-06-09   When "good nite" means it's time to turn your syst ...   Samhar

02-06-09   You spend hundreds of dollars on audio stuff as easily as yo ...   Foster_9

02-06-09   You sold a perfectly wonderful home to buy another just to g ...   Zargon

02-06-09   Despite hours upon hours of moving your speakers to get them ...   Unsound

02-07-09   Your internet browser homepage is audiogon.   Mdowns32

02-07-09: Tok20000
When you have 2 sets of amps. One for winter time listening (tubes). One for Summertime (solid state).

When you think $1k - $2k is a pretty reasonable price for used 1M cables that have gotten good press.

When you have multiple copies of the same album/CD for any variety of reasons.

When you have so many albums, that you have bought albums at the store that you already have because you forgot you had it.

When your primary guidelines for buying a house is how good the listening room is.

When you cannot possibly calculate how much you have spent on audio in your lifetime. You also have forgotten how many amps, pre-amps, digital, and cables you have owned in your lifetime. The all sort of blur after a bit. You can remember most of them... But it would take more effort than you can justify to list them all out.

When you have spent over $100 on a single piece of vinyl.

When you decide to lie to your significant other about the price of everything you buy for your system. You divide the number by at least 2 to 3.

You have paid over $30 (each) for aftermarket fuses for audio gear.

You have more equity in your audio system than anything else you own (including your house).

At you thought AA was Audiophile's Anonymous, and you considered going for a split second. Then you come to your senses and realize you probably would not fit in there.

Keith

Tok20000  (Threads | Answers | This Thread)


02-07-09   My present house cost less than my main system. and then the ...   Sns

02-07-09   Mitch has it right, what the hell am i doing here on a frida ...   Sns

02-07-09   You name your two sons martin and logan and your two daugthe ...   Mofimadness

02-07-09   You think buying an arc ref-3 in audiogon for $5500 is a bar ...   Cmtong

02-07-09   ...you can't figure out which amp to buy for your power cord ...   Gs5556

02-07-09   Your bathroom has bookshelves within arms reach of the thron ...   Jallen

02-07-09   You used to hate it when late night came and the family went ...   Douglas_schroeder

02-07-09   Even though you need to get your roof repaired you spend the ...   Elevenmg

02-07-09   You read and fight on audiogon threads more than you listen ...   Oregon

02-07-09   ...the phrase "getting laid" means running speaker ...   Vvrinc

02-07-09   You feel you need an audiophile-level system in at least 4 o ...   Wireless200

02-07-09   Greatest thread ever on the gon. now we just need a comedian ...   Sns

02-07-09   When you make a good money-saving deal on a non-audio item a ...   Myraj

02-07-09   You can't afford to buy it.   Slikric3000

02-07-09: Tok20000
You have the Audiogon website open perpetually at work and at home... Just so you don't miss a deal.

You meet your favorite equipment designer or recording engineer and you feel like you are meeting a movie or rock star.

You convert your garage into a listening rooms with dedicated lines. Then you realize it has no heating. You now have justification to go buy those insane tube amps you have been drooling over forever. Because actual indoor HVAC heating would be very expensive.

You have decided to pull most of your money out of the stock market and invest only in tubes. Because tubes never go down in value.

You have thought about being buried in one of your rather large speakers.

Police have been called over to your house by your neighbors, and when they arrive and hear your system, they are floored by the sound of it so much, they think your neighbors are nuts, and only issue a warning.

A robber breaks into your house and thinks he hit the jackpot. Then he tries to pick up and carry off one of your expensive looking [but heavy as hell] amplifiers... Next he tries to move your 250 lb speakers... Having no idea the value of the cables of your system, he frustratingly ends up taking your Playstation 3 that you use as a Blu Ray player. You are relived because it is by far less expensive than even most of the power cords in your system.

Keith

Tok20000  (Threads | Answers | This Thread)


02-07-09   You have put together an awsome high powerd ss system. you h ...   Leatherneck1812

02-07-09   It is -10 f in chicago and you are angry that the heat switc ...   Baranyi

02-12-09   You head for the blood bank when you see a "good deal&q ...   Oregon

02-12-09   You own a $3 k record cleaning machine.   Rballdude

02-13-09   You answer threads like this.   Chadnliz

02-13-09   You have "junk drawers" filled with old cartridge ...   Abucktwoeighty

02-13-09   Junk drawers? how about entire boxes! and you never worry ...   Wireless200

02-13-09   Wireless, how true! gotta ask where the "wireless" ...   Abucktwoeighty

02-15-09   Nowadays, i could say from my transporter and squeezebox but ...   Wireless200

02-15-09   If.....you care more about the cd player than the cd.......   Rja

02-15-09   ...you keep a straight face when you tell your friends that ...   Twoleftears

02-25-09   ... you attend live music concerts only when the seat in the ...   Syntax

03-06-09   You spend more on renovating your home to accomodate your eq ...   Puerto


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