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You get into spats about vinyl vs digital are forever buying new DAC's or obsess about VTA.
Throw a fit and threaten divorce if your wife moves your speakers.
Talk about how holographic your system is and how well it images to your non audiophile friends and you just get a blank look in reply.
Spend a fortune on bits of wire with shiny things hanging off the ends of them.
Or you could just chill and enjoy the music your choice. |
Jedinite,
If your baby refuses to drink his/her bottle after you replace the stock cord.... you got a junior audiophile in the making!! |
you cannot listen to your system off the sweet spot |
your stereo system is your highest priority, and/or, your stereo system ( a material thing) takes precedence over human relationships. |
You have big ears.
The better to hear you with my dear. |
You've done loads of research and footwork in order to make sure your ears are as clean as possible so that you're not missing any detail in your rig.
You take notes on how two different speaker cables sound because you don't trust your audio memory alone.
You set your rig up and then had interconnects made in the shortest lengths possible. Of course no cables touch each other or the ground.
You've thought about unplugging everything in your home before a listening session, except your stereo, in order to have the cleanest power possible.
Your rig sounds better at night, and you realized this before anyone told you. Upon finding this out, you wake up in the middle of the night to see how it sounds at 3 a.m.
You start buying stereo equipment for friends and family not because you think they will enjoy it, but because when you are with them, at least you'll have something decent to listen to.
You have speakers in your car where the dead pedal is and your foot goes numb because there is no comfortable place to put it.
You've bought a pair of speakers again that you already owned and sold because you think they might sound better with your new front end, and they do!
You've moved your speakers a quarter of an inch here and an eighth of an inch there so many times that the carpet has hundreds of holes in it.
You've taken into consideration the sonic properties of your listening chair.
When showing off your system, you try to stand in the room where your body might act as a bass trap. |
You laugh (inside) when people post negative
comments about gear or tweaks that they have not
auditioned. (They don't deserve to experience what they are
missing!) It is as if they imagine a negative outcome
and feel compelled to demonstrate their ignorance by writing
about it. "Here I am," they are shouting, just when they
might be better served by examining their own assumptions. |
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Audiogon is more interesting than (real) porn |
... you have an instant gut wrenching reaction when somebody says they just bought a new Bose sound system. |
The time comes to clean the carpets in your home, and you will not under any circumstances move your speakers. |
I had a dream last night I was playing chess and all the chess pieces were miniature speakers. The queen was an Estelon speaker. The knight was a Wilson Sasha and the rook was a vintage quad ESL. |
Devilboy - I've also had some audio related dreams, but you've got it really bad! Curious if you remember what speaker the King was??? |
When you buy new furniture more for the beneficial effects it has on room acoustics than aesthetics. Here's a post I just made on another thread:
"Buy a Raymore & Flannigan leather recliner loveseat coach. It fixed an annoying room bass node problem. Plus it doubles as a back messager because the absorbed bass energy vibrates the whole coach. :)" |
Sorry Bill_k. By the time I went to respond to this thread I forgot the rest of the pieces. Lol. On a similar note, I constantly see things related to audio in every day life. I'll look at a dinner plate at a certain angle and see a woofer in my mind. Or, one time my niece had one of those bendable plastic straws and the way it was bent looked like a tonearm. Ha! |
Dreams, yes, last night I dreamt that my partner "surprised" me by getting rid of our Aerials and Sonus Fabers and replacing with lots of in ceiling speakers. I was livid - maybe that was a nightmare!!! |
No audio nightmares/dreams yet. Don't get me started.
I find a discussion about the potential benefits of tibetian bowls on audio sound interesting. I guess that's it, I am no doubt an "audiophile" in addition to a Yogi. |
Re-reading positive reviews to assure yourself the gear you acquired is still worthy of inclusion or else ................................ |
My wife and I were hiking in a nearby nature preserve yesterday. It's spring and that's when all creature's spirits turn to the impulses of mating. Midways through the hike, we crossed paths with one particularly large male alligator who was calling for a mate and staking out his turf. The sound was so deep and intense, we both thought it was heavy machinery at first. Sounded like a ore hauler diesel running at lower than idle speed with no muffler system! Of course, I immediately marveled at how deep and pure the bass was and how even the best subwoofer systems would have difficulty reproducing it accurately. |
...you keep an extra fuse in your waistband. |
You make anyone who enters your listening room wear a blindfold. |
You never throw away "spent" tubes. |
you know what a Fozgometer is.
you're reading this posting.
you've uttered the phrase "they just don't get it" either audibly or under your breath.
you're wife has said "I'm getting a little worried about you".
you know what audigon is. |
You are gripped with terror when you see your wife looking at the certified check receipt that fell out of your pocket (happened yesterday). |
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I know new purchases are a problem. My wife often says, "I thought you were done buying all that."
I don't know what ever gave her that idea. It must be a wife's thing.
As long as I can hear and access the music, I'll never be done... |
Ozzy, did you tell her that? ;-) |
Yeah, and she says that when I die all of my equipment will be out on the street!
I'll show her, and out live her... |
You know you're a cheap audiophile if-- You are in the women's make-up isle trying to find the specific blush brush you read about in the Audiogon forum that is great for cleaning your CDs or LPs before/after listening. |
after changing anything possible - start playing with fuse direction ... |
...you label all of your CDs either IP (in polarity) or OOP (out of polarity). |
"after changing anything possible - start playing with fuse direction ..."
How true. Anything possible.
Sadly, I lie to experiment with anything possible for sure, but I do not have time to waste, so I choose my experiments carefully.
I'm sure those who experiment with fuses do not consider it to be a waste either, whatever the results. |
If you start telling white lies to your loved ones to snick that new gear in to your house without getting caught.
For us, this obsession is quest for happiness it-self...
On push of few buttons, we are transported to the never never land of nirvana...Better than drugs - one agoner said ! (and safer and cheaper) |
Mapman wrote,
""after changing anything possible - start playing with fuse direction ..."
How true. Anything possible.
Sadly, I lie to experiment with anything possible for sure, but I do not have time to waste, so I choose my experiments carefully."
Hey, Mapman, I'm pretty sure this is not supposed to be a serious thread. You can go back to your BarcoLounger now. |
- you get art prints made out of audiophile approved acoustic panels
- you own a tube tester, freq analyzing mic, or tone generator
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When you have a reoccurring nightmare about a component you foolishly sold. Over....and....over....and...over. |
You know you're an audiophile if-your biggest fear is when you die the wife will sell your hi-fi at the price you told her it cost. :D |
1) you own VTL Wotans and love them.
2) you want to get another pair- for biamping.
3) you knock out all the non-loadbearing walls in your home to give your Magnepans the room they really need.
4) All prospective home purchases are evaluated vis-a-vis the potential listening rooms. (I know someone ELSE mentioned it... But I'm going through it too.)
5) You buy two phono preamps (in addition to having a built-in phono stage in one of your preamps) before you have purchased a turntable
6) You have more tube amps than you have fingers.
7) You start building your own gear...
8) Audiogon becomes your porn site of choice!
9) Robert Plant asks you if you know who has the Extended Plinth VPI Aires with the Lyra Cart. that's posting Led Zeppelin Hi-Res MP3's on Torrent and YouTube sites, and you say you don't, but if you find yourself in the fellow's listening room, you promise that the Lyra will have to be shipped to Soundsmith for a new cantilever... |
You don't go to live concerts, sit home and listen to
few CDs and/or vinyls that sound perfect as reference for next upgrade or tube-rolling;
each of your component has a dedicated line including iPad;
you enjoy more sound than music or musicians therefore you don't need to explore yourself onto other music except your few CDs of Diana Krall.
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You spend $2999.00 for a pair of speakers and tell your wife they cost well under $3000.00, and that price even included shipping.
Plus, you'll sell the old speakers for close to what the new ones cost, so the difference is really only a few dollars. |
You give your old stereo components to your (grown) children so you have to buy new stuff! Because you hate the idea of them having to listen to ordinary stuff, apparently. I sleep well at night knowing I have perpetuated the hobby by infecting my son in law with Audiophilia, he's got it bad! |
Alpha, one on the most insightful comments I've seen on hear.
I've done it more than once-LOL . |
you renove 5 rooms in your basement.
1 worshop to do your renovation,
1 datacenter for your music server,
1 air conditioning system and filtration,
1 for your cd collection
and 1 for your listening room... |
You start wondering if telluric lines have an effect on your stereo. |
You check this thread when there are new postings. |
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also when moniker is after famous composer :-) |
Well its better than a Russian autocrat.
Actually, I'm more than a little red-faced about it.
With just a brief perusal I thought this was just a bunch
of dumb rockers on here who wouldn't know Schubert from Santana.
Wrong again. |
You're reading this thread. |
