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pettyofficer--I still work --comment was made as to should be working but reading the posts on this thread |
The "Great Depression" around here is when I haven't the time to listen to the system. |
I am not working either, collecting a Pension, not quite certifiable. Still manage to pay my rent, and put food on the table. I certainly hope that no-one has gone beyond that! I can think of a few Historical Obsessive Compulsive Characters, like Thomas Edison or the Wright Brothers, who still had their Jobs. I wouldn't necessarily call them certifiable, others can disagree. Gee, I was having such a good time on this Thread, now it is spoiled. I guess that I will just have to crawl back under the pessimistic rock labelled "Recession". This must be how our Grandparents helped this Country recover from an even greater Recession, known as the "Great Depression"! |
pettyofficer--I am still laughing and not working glad everone realizes how certifiable we all are in a good way !! |
I am laughing at myself, because some of these Responses hit too close to Home. BOOM! Your Response just sank my Battleship Savings Account! Anyone need a donation of Blood? |
i think i need to cease and desist from reading AA, where the vitriol flows (ironically, an addictive site) like wine. indeed, the 'gon remains a civil and thoughtful forum site ....he said laughing at himself.
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I read all of these Responses, and I laugh. I am not laughing at anyone else, I am laughing at myself. Boy, don't some of these responses sound familiar, too many hit too close to home! I accept your recant, but if you want releif from Audiophile Fatigue, you came to the right Thread! Someone here, turbocharge Johnnyturbo's funny bone, we all need a good laugh at ourselves! |
i admit to being in a state of audiophile fatigue and in line with my own pov, i recant, i recant. in fact. i thank you for response, which appropriately readjusts my mindset.......in regards to this thread. :) |
How do you figure? I thought that the idea here, was to poke fun at oneself. I thought the idea, was not to take yourself so seriously, hardly an ego exercize. Need to tone it down on the Turbo, Johnny, where is your sense of humor? The only thing that is going to implode, is me laughing so hard, unless you ruin it. |
your respond to forum postings as if every posted response that differed from yours was going to cause your ego to implode. |
You dedicatedly read every last one of these Responses, and realize atleast half apply to yourself.
The Canadian Customs Officials know you by name, don't even bother checking your package of the latest hand made Tube gear that you are bringing back to the States.
The Huge Transformers on your Audio Gear, heat up enough to light a cigarette off of.
It is a hundred and ten degrees in the shade, and you still turn on your Stereo System, knowing that it is going to increase your room temperature by another 20 degrees.
You carefully monitor a clock to determine how long it takes for your System to properly warm up for optimum listening. |
You have a nice couch that seats three people for listening session and $20 HomeDepot chair for watching TV :-) |
You only have one chair in your listening room
(oh... if you have a listening room) |
You've shunned your family and friends by moving your listening chair to a nearfield position. |
when you are reading this post instead of working-isn't the extra room in the house for boxes and not guests?? |
you have a weekend car in your garage that you can no longer use because of the stack of empty component boxes on it... *sigh* |
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Spending way too much money on gear is one thing but, turning off the heat in the winter or the A/C in the summer is going too far! It makes much more sense to re-design the HVAC system with a minimum of 25 feet of over-sized Acoustiflex ducts feeding the acoustically rated registers, keep the face velocity at the registers well below 100 feet per minute, add a return air system with face vel at 25 ft per minute or so, have a certified air balance company adjust the system to about .5 inches of water column positive pressure to keep the dust out and relocate the fan for the system to the back yard as far as possible from the sweet spot in the room. |
you really open up to your psychologist by telling him all your real problems developed mysteriously after first navigating through "Audiogon". |
$50 for oil!!! That's a quad of BDR #3 cones!!!! |
...When a $1500 amp is cheap but a $50 oil change is expensive 05-09-09: Samhar
-- your system has reaches a place where you can stop tweaking with new parts and you become depressed. ....I fear I'm there. |
-- your system has reaches a place where you can stop tweaking with new parts and you become depressed. |
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You upgrade interconnects, and find yourself checking the Audiogon interconnects auctions/classifieds that same evening. |
You plan your vacations with special stops to Audio Stores and Audio related stuff.
I took the Wife for a trip through Tennessee starting at Memphis. Surprise, Memphis just happens to be the place where Eggleston Works is located. Eggleston Works is the factory that made my Andra 2 speakers.
It sure was a nice tour of the facility. Oh, the rest of Memphis and Elvis's mansion was ok. |
You can't get off a merry-go-round. |
...even Joachim Phoenix thinks you're nuts. |
You freak out if you can't think of anything to upgrade. |
You enjoy totaling up the "full retail" cost of your whole system just to shock yourself that you own such an expensive system, but refuse to tell anyone else that figure.
Use said system above to listen to listen to bootleg Springsteen concerts.
You have a party and spend much of the evening answering questions like "those blinking blue LEDs plugged into the outlets are not a security system - they're Noise Harvesters," then of course have to try to explain what a noise harvester is. |
You can relate to over 90% of these posts |
Bravo Shadorne!!! You win!!!! |
You color the edges of your toilet paper with a green marker. |
If you know what audiophile means. |
That's funny; I pay $50 montlhly for a storage unit just for the component boxes! I know all of my pieces will be worth more on A'gon if I have the original boxes! |
Oh my God reading this stuff had me in tears..I got so many component boxes I need to rent a storage unit...... |
Well said Jim
I would love to hear your system if i'm ever in your neck of the woods |
When you have finally assembled a 450 SLC in your living room, but now want a 580.
When inordinate prices don't make you blink, but make you think "How long it will take, instead"
When you have more money in wires than in your IRA.
wHEN YOU ARE BARTERING FOR YOUR KIDS BRACES WITH A VINTAGE INTEGRATED.
wHEN YOUR SYSTEM HAS FINALLY GOTTEN EXACTLY WHERE YOU WANT IT... YOU SELL IT and start over
When even the bathroom has bass traps.
When you go to Lowes, you begin to think about just how many fiberglass panels it would take to fix all the issues.
When you start your auditionsd in the 'big room'.
...... or when you just never seem to be quite done building your rig. |
Hey, I figure I'll, probably, lose all my teeth, one day, anyway, so what the hell.
I may be crazy. But, I'm not stupid. Maybe I should be a Fox news anchor. |
And collectively the room full of toothless Audiogoners respond: "Hi Nuts" |
Rather than have expensive dental surgery, you just have your tooth pulled so that you can buy an expensive power cord.
You'd have to be NUTS to do that.
Let me introduce myself. I'm Nuts. |
You simply cannot relax in your music room without being tormented with thoughts such as: "Can we raise the ceiling? What if the room were just 3 feet wider" Geez, why didn't I take the time to run those cables under the floor? This lighting sucks! and on and on it goes. |
When house hunting, the highest priority is checking out every room for its suitability to accomodate your audio system. Sure your family matters too, but...
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You steal your friends wifes cutting boards and micro fibre brushes to use for another friends system just because he did not believe you that they work and you did not want to remove your wifes from your own system. |
You steal you wifes cutting boards and micro fibre brushes to use for your system |
You've had over 100 speaker systems over the past 35 years (like me). |
And you indicate right at the beginning and indicate left at the end of each CD |
the turn indicator arm on your car has a anti-skating counter weight |
your wife is 2 feet taller than you (ensures correct tweeter alignment for proper stereo imaging at all times) |
you use an anti-static toothbrush with sorbothane pads |
