Priorities, who makes the rules anyway?


I'm putting this on the table for two reasons, 1) I am tired of 'which amp for my speakers' threads, and 2) I am right.

Most everyone I know thinks I am a crazy-man. They refer to me as the one who has taken home entertainment to the "extreme." My question is, where'd they get that idea? Generally speaking: the average upper-middle-class yupster walks into a car dealer and plops down $???$ without thinking twice. Next they slice the price into monthly payments, add interest and insure it, all for the low, low, price of what...say, $35k (for arguments sake). Now throw another in for the wife. Where are we now, $70k in cars? The point. This sort of average behavior is thought of as completely reasonable and rational in most circumstances.

On the other hand, a guy like me (or we) who throw(s) down anything approaching (or even half) the total amount of the car, much less both cars, on home entertainment stuff, is a nutcase (or bunch of them if all of you are still on board) with out of whack priorities. What is with this? I enjoy my HT system way more than I enjoy my car. I spend more time at home with my HT system, or at least try to. All else equal I would rather drive a junker pick-up and come home to a plasma flatscreen, than any other, another way around. For me, this is true, even if it's just to watch the news. (The real point, as you may have guessed--I am talking myself into spending more). I NEED that flatscreen. I do.

When are we going to start thinking of home entertainment the same as we do cars? As it is for most, high dollar home entertainment is still thought of as a guilty pleasure.
j_thunders

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Funny, the Honda Insight hybrid was supposed to be a babe magnet, but all I get is stares like I'm from another planet. Oh, I am it seems.

True socal story: there was this lowrider boomcar on the freeway, and as the tuning and damping of the suspension was of course out of sorts in the search for lowness, happened to catch a sub hertz resonance with the concrete strips that are poured separately for stress relief. A subtle dip about every few car lengths, that stock suspensions have no problem with.
The occupants had stylist bowl haircuts similar to Larry of the Three Stooges in a vain attempt at individuality through conformity. You've seen the look, abrupt cutoff at the mid of the neck.
So, with the boomcar bouncing severely, and the hair going floppa, floppa, floppa, the stylish occupants were not going to loose their cool, and just hunkered down. The funniest visual in a while. You had to be there, and are probably glad you were'nt. Just to add insult to injury, my buddy, who likes to live life on the edge, rolls down the window, and mimiking the bounce, says something like "are we having fun yet?". Fortunately there was an exit at hand, so no physical injuries were sustained.

Oh, back to the subject...if one includes all three systems, main, secondary, and office, they are more $ than my vehicle (the hybrid). I think that is a healthy ratio. So what if it only gets smiles from geeky granola gurrrls...

Watching the power meter spin backwards,

WMS