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How important is spending time with your gear?

In another topic we're talking about digital input speakers, and it got me thinking about something entirely different. 

How important is it to spend time physically close to your gear, vs. enjoying it's output?  If you could have your gear in another room, or closet, and you were left with just your speakers with no audible downside would you do it?  Would you put your gear away and enjoy the empty space or do you need the physical closeness?

Clearly turntables make this a challenge, and there will be some poopy heads which don't get the question or can't stretch their imagination but for those who can, would you?

erik_squires
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bastarr1
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Ouch, I couldn’t do it.  It would be like having a Yenko Camaro or a beautiful Harley covered up in a storage unit and never driving them. Why?

fatdaddy2
380 posts
 

If I don't like it visually, it doesn't belong in my system.  (I just got around to buying an amp with a remote this last year, so progress is slow here...)

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2psyop
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It sounds like, for many here, the gear is more important than the music.

bobpyle
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@clearthinker, 

As a 66 years old music lover and someone who has spent 50 years trying to find hi-fif audio nirvana and have a traditional, expensive and entertaining hi-fi system, I had no intention of "expressing the wish of the next generation."

I was expressing my own view, nobody else's. 

It seems that my thoughts are diametrically opposite to yours and I respect your need to enjoy the aesthetics of your technology. It is this diversity of values and need that makes a hi-fi industry flourish. 

 

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maxwave
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@boltapuresource 

+1

I have friends who store their Harley Davidson , in their living room 

during winter !

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