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The partner or wife factor

Most of us don't live alone. We have to contend with the people, we share our living space with. This can be a huge asset to our hobby, sometimes a detriment. Sometimes, listening with a loved one can deepen our involvement with the music and shared hobbies are a source of joy through the years, sometimes the hobby can be a continual source of bickering and trigger resentment and,in a worst case setting, separation either from the system or from the partner. I personally, in my long life, have both met with intelligent support for, but also viscious resentment of my gear, as systems and partners changed.( Systems more than parners) The shortest episode, hilarious actually, was when a ladyfriend , led by me proudly to the listening area , shrieked "electrosmog....!!" You can rest assured, she didn't stay very long. What about your experiences? Joyful, painful, helpful, destructive, funny or amorous ones? Very curious....
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detlof OP
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It feels good to see my old thread revived, thanks to Chashmal and the virtual vaults of A. I think it was the great George Steiner, one of the finest literary minds of our times, Professor of Comparative Literature at Chicago, Oxford and Geneva who said and here I quote: " To listen to music with the loved one is to be in a condition simultaneously private,almost autistic, yet strangely welded to another (shared reading, reading aloud, does not achieve this)." I know this to be true and lucky the man who has a companion who would share his love for music in the same way.
The quote by the way, is from Steiner's book "ERRATA, an examined life", Yale University Press, 1998. His chapter on music is highly recommended, especially to those, who like me are in never ending wonderment about what music does to us and why.
detlof OP
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...but a very good and deeply true one, dear Greg!
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