Types of Audiophiles

..spent hours moving spouses’ 2 monitors and stands on her office desk ’to the right a bit’ and unsnarling the cables on Sunday pm...

Today: "The monitors are too close to me...." so it gets undone, taken off the gas stand 2 monitor stand, restored to the original stands of the monitors (which had gotten squirreled away in her office and mistook for the ones of my monitors...similar, but not the same ’fit’...)....

"Use the rawhide hammer..."

Hammer a monitor....yeah, right... 😣

She found hers, finally. Snap, done....

...and wonders why I can get ’cranky’ when I’d like to spend a day re-running lines to my speakers to restore some sense to the non-sense....

...and why I may want to reach through one of my monitors and apply a ’dope slap’ to an innocent....*emoji unavailable*

@erik... catagorize away, you’ve just ’fingerprinted’ the surface.... ;)

Please don't make me look into the mirror...

"Mirror, mirror, on the hook,

whose output stage is about to cook?"

*...the silver backing begins to swirl, slowly forming copy...*

Please refer to the 'magic 8 ball' for further analysis.

I first spent a fair amount of time reading reviews, studying options, listening to set ups in show rooms, etc. I was intensely focused for a couple of months, like studying for an important final exam. Then I assembled a pretty high end system with a reasonably generous budget, helped by the availability of pricy but nicely-discounted equipment. And lucky me, after it was fully assembled, my system sounded great, just as I hoped.

Next, I listened to a wide variety of my music, grazing and sampling scores of sources. Yup, across the board, my set up continued to hold up.

Now, I don’t think much about equipment at all.

My almost exclusive measure is simple:

Does it sound like the performer is IN THE ROOM?

(Of course, the quality of the recording is very important for optimizing that singular measure of realism).

That said, my sole question now is: DOES IT SOUND LIKE IT’S IN THE ROOM?

If it does, I’m happy. Very happy.

Is there a category for people like me who want just one thing: 

Does it sound like it’s IN THE ROOM?

THE HOARDER: 4 BASIC AMPLIFIERS, 3 PRE-AMPS, 5 TURNTABLES, 7 SETS OF SPEAKERS, 3 SUBWOOFERS, 4 SACD PLAYERS.