the one that got away - how do you handle grief?
I just lost a bid for my dream speakers that I had been chasing for a decade. It was pretty stupid because I missed the last hour and maybe I would have won it with another $100. But maybe it's a sign, it's just a piece of hardware, that I should not be obsessed with. - "you can't always get what you want"
Did you always get the gear you thought would make you whole?
Thanks. I am a bit relieved that I have about a month to get some of my ducks in a row for the arrival of the new speakers. I still have some acoustic panels to built and wrap for my ceiling panels and bass panels. Once the new speakers are installed and setup the measurements of the system/room will begim to determine the intial placement of acoustic controls.
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@mckinneymike those are serious speakers! May be one of the lions of the speaker evolution |
u guys did it again...made me smile. I remember my father saying once about women, "don't worry about losing one because, like buses, another one will be along in about 15 minutes." These words were only partly comforting at the time and only partly true, though the element of humor embedded is not lost on me, nor his advice not to sweat it too much. Sadly there is one that got away in college that I never quite got over...she was probably the one. Its long past being a search I could take seriously at 73. As to equipment that got away...my most recent fire losses included some pieces that were near and dear to me, not just because I genuinely liked their performance but because their age represented an era I am predisposed to be stuck in. I loved my old vintage Hafler DH 200 and the Adcom preamp that drove my ADC 303 ax speakers (modified with new crossovers and soft dome tweeters) One pair of the two pair of these I owned survived the fire and currently make up the main pair in the LR system. State of the art? No, pretty darn good with the upgrades applied? Oh yeah. Not too shabby. But these and the puny surround speakers I currently use cannot hold a candle to the sound I got from my VMPS tower II Special Editions and the VMPS larger subs I had to go with them. The subs driven from Bob Carver's M1.5t and a matching M1.5t for the front left and right and AR-3a picking up the slack at the rear channels. All driven by carver amps of appropriate power or more than appropriate. The pre-processor was a Yamaha upper mid tier receiver forget the model number but it was the brains offering their dsp processing for synthesized multi channel modes that in some cases made unencoded broadcast material a bit more interesting than just a straight Dolby Digital interpretation. This pre-pro was good and clean especially in preamp mode. So nice to be able to upgrade a relatively low power receiver thru preamp outputs. I took full advantage of that to my ears delight. I would not call this system cutting edge or extravagant in any way. It was capable of 115 db at the listening position over the full frequency range and I was content with it. All I want back from the insurance is another system that gives me the same or better experience and that is fair. But it has been over two years and the insurance continues to fight us. Its a war of attrition that may end me before the fight ends. |
