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How much of your free time is dedicated to listening to your stereo?

About 70 percent of my recreational time is used listening to my stereo. I will also be using my phone some of the time. I don't look at TV much at all. An occasional movie and two TV series. I'm a hardcore audiophile. Nothing else stimulates my dopamine reward system like music does. When I was 8 or 9 and discovered music, it was all enveloping in my life. I'm unbalanced but right now as I'm listening to PF "The Wall" I'm taken away to a rush of feelings and emotions. Like Jimi Hendrix said "Music is a safe kind of high".
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loki1957
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4-5 hours a day. I'm retired.
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bdp24
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I don't listen TO my stereo, I listen to music through it ;-). And when I'm not, I still hear music playing in my head, all waking hours.
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rocray
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I listen to music at least 1-2 hrs a day. I get home well before my wife. This is my "me"time. 
edcyn
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Maybe a couple hours a day. The thing is, I actually feel a bit guilty about spending time sitting in front of my stereo.  I feel I should be socializing, getting exercise, doing chores or putting time into my musical instruments. 

Yeah, I'm retired, but I actually listened to my stereo a lot more when I was working.  As it happened, I spent many years reading movie scripts, novels and comic books(!) for a major movie studio.  Through the Seventies, Eighties and early Nineties, the studio provided offices for me and my fellow readers on the lot but eventually, as a money-saving move, they tossed us off the lot and had us working from home, communicating via the newfangled internet. Suddenly, I was sitting in front of my stereo all day, reading brainless action movies, teen comedies and animated features.  I agree it was a tough life...
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