If you lost your stereo system would you still ???

I downsized my system because I was spending less time listening, but I still listen, whether it's in the sweet spot or in the background.

Sometimes I enjoy listening to the system I have out in the garage more, even though it's FM only, but that may be more a result of being in my own little world.

I would go with a headphones. You can get a pretty decent headphone setup for $500. I didn't say good but, descent.

I spent somewhere between $500 and $1k on my headphone setup when the main rig had to go because of the arrival of twin boys.

I like to listen to music but, enjoy it more when the system is more revealing.

I’ve found out just what I’ll do if my main rig went away… I’d adjust. Some way or t’other. I’d slide into something far less expensive too, I’m pretty sure.

I’m not entirely sure it is because I love music though. It probably is however. I know this because during the “Sweet jumpijn’ Jellyfish!”, past year, I’ve been making a lot of changes around here and my main deal has been all but shelved. Just sitting there covered up with towels. Since Feb. 08 it might have been played 30 hours. Maybe.

I kept getting more and more despondent & disinterested in music by and large. But I never put it together. My ongoing disinterest in music, and the absence of fine sounding tunes being played regularly..

Yesterday I decided to disconnect the main speakers from the HT deal and just use the tubes at last, primarily because I wanted to see how the new NAS drive + PC as source would do with better gear running the show.

Whoa!

After working out some network sharing bugs…. It was such a major improvement I was stupefied by how long it had been since I had sat down to listen without listening in a critical way. Actually I was mystified by why I had gone so long without firing up my first string players!

Not only had I forgotten how much better the sound was that routinely had been my near only venue for music… I was remarkably and pleasantly mesmerized by the sheer degree of improvement that came by way of purely HDD – PC+ DAC sounds. Not to mention the convenient variety of music just a click away now.

… and it was great fun too.

I had simply gotten used to watching TV & movies via the HT sys, and listening to tunes only sporadically thru it these past months.

The diffs were so astounding, it still amazes me how when my focus to other areas became entrenched, that I lost track of the feeling which came from hearing music in a pretty good system so often…. And then to just quit doing it altogether! Wow.

Maybe I had even gone to the point of taking that rig for granted, and quit appreciating it’s capabilities, performance level and it’s impact on myself.
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Wow. How I managed that I have no clue.

Play your rig often… if you don’t, you might forget just how good it really is and what it means to you in other areas, and try not to take it for granted.

…. OR shelve it for six or eight months and then get amazed all over again.

i do most of my listening in rental cars, so the answer is yes. no high end system in the world can compare hearing my cd's blairing from all sides in a garden variety chevy with the windows down in the summer.

I enjoy music on a Tivoli radio.
Music is the reason for this hobby.