I stopped watching the news and politics and the world kept on turning!
I am 59 and started serious buying after my wife passed away in 2012.
Nothing calms and puts things in perspective like a quite room with a good system and great music to listen too.
We have the ability to change very little in life, outside of our community, many will argue that but I have been so calm since I learned to let the train wreck continue on without me.
I guess you could say I went over the top and off the cliff buying audio gear, it was the perfect storm , depression, insurance money and a rediscovery of great music and systems again.
One day I was looking at ebay, I have never payed much attention to the computers, and I discovered vintage audio gear:):):)!
6 Macintosh amps, numerous tube amps and 22 sets of speakers later, I am calm.
I am raising two grand kids, since birth 14 and 15 now, they know what heavy amps mean ,what large effecent altec and klipsch speakers are and why size matters ,differences between tube amps and ss.
They are home schooled by me , we are learning electronics as one of our studies, if your going to have it you need to be able to fix it.
They like what we like, they will continue on and all I did was expose them to it and take cable tv away throw the video games out and set them up with their own systems.
They also had to have a few months of disbelief and come to terms with no one was coming to save them and their spoiled life they had been living.
Did I mention the installation of two wood stoves and now we heat with wood, another shock but now they look forward to cold weather, yes we cut and split our own wood:).
I have a bedroom I turned into a stereo storage room, more like a store, we all change our systems about at will, we go shopping in the store.
All this was made possible for about what some people pay for a good bass boat, or a fraction of what that latest greatest new car cost.
I hope this does not come across wrong,I am just so happy to be able too show my kids there is so much more to life and it's all about choices we make along the way.
I think audio today is suffering because the youth today does not care about great music , any old music will do on the phone or computer.
I have down loaded music off line , when I burn them to cd and put them in a great system the play back is less than stellar.
I have used other computers and have cd's people have made for me, I just think the quality of mixing and recording has suffered because it's just not that important anymore, they will buy anything!
I am 59 and started serious buying after my wife passed away in 2012.
Nothing calms and puts things in perspective like a quite room with a good system and great music to listen too.
We have the ability to change very little in life, outside of our community, many will argue that but I have been so calm since I learned to let the train wreck continue on without me.
I guess you could say I went over the top and off the cliff buying audio gear, it was the perfect storm , depression, insurance money and a rediscovery of great music and systems again.
One day I was looking at ebay, I have never payed much attention to the computers, and I discovered vintage audio gear:):):)!
6 Macintosh amps, numerous tube amps and 22 sets of speakers later, I am calm.
I am raising two grand kids, since birth 14 and 15 now, they know what heavy amps mean ,what large effecent altec and klipsch speakers are and why size matters ,differences between tube amps and ss.
They are home schooled by me , we are learning electronics as one of our studies, if your going to have it you need to be able to fix it.
They like what we like, they will continue on and all I did was expose them to it and take cable tv away throw the video games out and set them up with their own systems.
They also had to have a few months of disbelief and come to terms with no one was coming to save them and their spoiled life they had been living.
Did I mention the installation of two wood stoves and now we heat with wood, another shock but now they look forward to cold weather, yes we cut and split our own wood:).
I have a bedroom I turned into a stereo storage room, more like a store, we all change our systems about at will, we go shopping in the store.
All this was made possible for about what some people pay for a good bass boat, or a fraction of what that latest greatest new car cost.
I hope this does not come across wrong,I am just so happy to be able too show my kids there is so much more to life and it's all about choices we make along the way.
I think audio today is suffering because the youth today does not care about great music , any old music will do on the phone or computer.
I have down loaded music off line , when I burn them to cd and put them in a great system the play back is less than stellar.
I have used other computers and have cd's people have made for me, I just think the quality of mixing and recording has suffered because it's just not that important anymore, they will buy anything!