You know you're an audiophile if--

your respond to forum postings as if every posted response that differed from yours was going to cause your ego to implode.

How do you figure? I thought that the idea here, was to poke fun at oneself. I thought the idea, was not to take yourself so seriously, hardly an ego exercize. Need to tone it down on the Turbo, Johnny, where is your sense of humor? The only thing that is going to implode, is me laughing so hard, unless you ruin it.

i admit to being in a state of audiophile fatigue and in line with my own pov, i recant, i recant. in fact. i thank you for response, which appropriately readjusts my mindset.......in regards to this thread. :)

I read all of these Responses, and I laugh. I am not laughing at anyone else, I am laughing at myself. Boy, don't some of these responses sound familiar, too many hit too close to home! I accept your recant, but if you want releif from Audiophile Fatigue, you came to the right Thread! Someone here, turbocharge Johnnyturbo's funny bone, we all need a good laugh at ourselves!

i think i need to cease and desist from reading AA, where the vitriol flows (ironically, an addictive site) like wine. indeed, the 'gon remains a civil and thoughtful forum site ....he said laughing at himself.
la

I am laughing at myself, because some of these Responses hit too close to Home. BOOM! Your Response just sank my Battleship Savings Account! Anyone need a donation of Blood?

pettyofficer--I am still laughing and not working glad everone realizes how certifiable we all are in a good way !!

I am not working either, collecting a Pension, not quite certifiable. Still manage to pay my rent, and put food on the table. I certainly hope that no-one has gone beyond that! I can think of a few Historical Obsessive Compulsive Characters, like Thomas Edison or the Wright Brothers, who still had their Jobs. I wouldn't necessarily call them certifiable, others can disagree. Gee, I was having such a good time on this Thread, now it is spoiled. I guess that I will just have to crawl back under the pessimistic rock labelled "Recession". This must be how our Grandparents helped this Country recover from an even greater Recession, known as the "Great Depression"!

The "Great Depression" around here is when I haven't the time to listen to the system.

pettyofficer--I still work --comment was made as to should be working but reading the posts on this thread

You read this thread through:
My Noisey Fridge

When you decide everthing else in the house matters too, and you begin selecting household goods based on how they might possibly affect the stereo.

When you listen to your rig at 6 in the evening and think "Thankfully it will sound better later when the HVAC system turns off."

When you refer to your $900 MRLP family room stereo as your "bad system."

"You buy an album and clean, then play, the sides in numerical order."

Audiofeil - seriously, you mean there's another way?!

Gosh, I got some good laughs from these.

Ok I got new one I'm just finding out about. You have an extra pair of speakers - good speakers. You were going to sell them because you already have two systems. You decide you can't do that and start thinking, what amp and equipment do I need to buy to set up a third system. And in what room.

You start wondering, if it would be possible to create a device that could actually clean one side of a Record, and play the other side at the same time. O.K.- who makes and manufactures it, I know that I wasn't the first one to think of it! Where can I get one, and it better cost more than atleast $5000.00 or it is not even worth concideration!

I think the "audiophile" thing is because most of us are "project focused" (I would say a "man" thing, but I know there are women "audiophiles" out there). I spend more time reading/buying for the "project" while the music plays in the background, than "listening". I know the music / system is good when it distracts me from the "project".

besides your main 2 channel system, you have a 5.1 in the living room, and NAD/Athena system in your wife's office and wake up to a JBL clock radio. Then you buy a 2nd home and put a nice stereo in one bedroom, and some nice little Kef's under the TV.

"You buy an album and clean, then play, the sides in numerical order."

Actually, probably just buying an album alone these days qualifies you but, yes, the cleaning and playing parts are likely then as well.

Also, if you actually spend time reading a thread called "You know you're an audiphile if-"....

You put the record back in the sleeve/cover with side A facing forward.

If your current sound system is larger than the first house you bought.

If you have a car audio system that you realize is not even going to fit in your car.

As the number of coins in your coin jar grow you think you're getting close to 1/4 the cost of a new power cord.

...you write weekly to Classic Records for re-mastering a
1000 gr Reissue "Chet Atkins in Hollywood"

you've finally assembled your system and the new focus is wire and interconnect management--how to hide the mess...

When you hear things like "lets set the record straight", "off the record", "he may have set a new record", you envision those round vinyl thingies...

You look around the house for things to pawn to buy audio gear. I'm thinking the lamp is worth at least fifty bucks...

If you own a separate bank account linked to PayPal to manage your buy/sell transactions.

Well, if the account was not initially known to your spouse but later got revealed, then ...

You've "upgraded" and "upgraded", selling the "old" stuff on Agon or Ebay....only to wind up buying a piece you used to have because it is SS but sounds like Tubes. Because you're afraid of the "Tube" hassles.

You go to your doctor and ask if he can check your frequency response.

your frame of reference for time, i.e. history, is forever linked to the components you used to own, such as: I recall that September of '98 when I got that killer buy on a $3k new Sony XA7ES CDP for $1000 as Sony was closing out production on it...or that July of '99 when the first of many Plinius SA100's arrived to adorn my listening room, and how days later that same amp that had arrived just days earlier with thoughts of great anticipation now had me on a mission to find a fan that was inaudible enough not to have an audible influence from my listening position...and how just months later that same Class A amplifier kept me warm and cozy throughout the winter...I could go on and on, but somehow I'm left with the feeling I'm preaching to the choir ;)

One of your toilets has a turntable on it (over slabs of concrete and maple of course) so as to isolate it. You've drilled holes in your wall so you could have the shortest interconnect run...and you don't care what female guests think of it.....

You judge an amplifier on its current delivery capability, damping factor and input impedance instead of its pretty flashing lights.

If you're beginning to feel like "Red Green"

Your gear sounds great for a few months and then needs to be replaced one piece at a time until you locate the source of the less than pleasing sound you are now hearing.
In many cases, the culprit cannot be found and an entirely new system is born! Sadly, after much turmoil, you wish you had kept your old equipment!

Within days you tell your wife that your system has never sounded better only to counter with but last night i knew hwat could make the system better as you beg her to let you buy xyz device.

You finally finish putting together that perfect system and you already know what you are going to replace each piece of it with in the future!

You can't make love to your wife without the stereo on!

You stop in the middle of making love to flip the record!

When you return home from a party you comment on how bad the sound was there.

Speakerwire and interconnects turn you on more than women.

Pepperg73.... HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! yeah. I feel that way sometimes.

you take funeral leave from work because your amp died

I fit some of these -- cables especially. Never went truly high end on the interconnects -- just trying to match. As a result of the Audiogon auctions -- I have interconnects from Ridge Street Audio, Boulder Cable (with inline bybees) a host of bybees as well just for other applications and now -- have three more pairs of interconnects, plus one more digital cable on its way.

So yeah -- I guess I am an audiophile.

Not to mention that I just spent three hours determining the right dither setting on my Audio Alchemy DTI Pro32 to feed into my Muse Model 2 Plus DAC. Turns out -- the 20 bit setting (which is what the DAC was designed for) is best to my ears. Still -- I wouldn't have known except for the fact that I went through an audition of each setting multiple times in a double elimination tournament format.

Yeah -- I guess the hobby is where it's at.

When you start thinking of moving to be closer to a transformer on a quieter power line.

you have far more cables in a box than you have cables in your system.

OR

you have far more spare tubes than you have CD's.

OR

you spend four hours determining just the right bias setting for your amp.

OR

you spend another four hours eliminating all but one dither setting to feed your DAC -- and the one that remains is the one that the DAC was designed to uptake (20 bit).

you have far more cables in a box than you have cables in your system.
OR
you have far more spare tubes than you have CD's.

This just makes you a pack rat!! :)

When you dream of your stereo. Or a power cable like last night. A POWER CABLE! The whole time! I need help.

Boy, I read some of these and I say that, "atleast I am not that bad"! Then I sit here looking at four components brisling with Vacuum Tubes, next to a Solid State Universal Player, next to a Turntable, and next to a Computer. What's wrong with this picture? Nothing, but there might be something very wrong with the guy sitting next to this stuff! Don't think that I am going to try having sex with it though, sounds painful!

You know you're an audiophile if- spending $800 on a 1 meter pair of IC's seems like a bargain!

if you've ever considered selling off your stereo and getting out of the "hobby." Otherwise, you're a melomane, just like me.

Arthur

Hi Arthur, I looked up "melomane" in two dictionaries and could not find a description.

Bob