members and their systems

Birdsdontrow- Don’t think Einstein is right in the head. He’s in the Doghouse a lot!

I have a Credit Union credit card that has a great rate; my only debt. I know I won’t spend money out of my savings so I put it on the card and pay it off by selling Tools and older Audio Equipment. I Try buying used when I can. I’m feeling a new set of Speaker in a month or two.
I know it might be a little silly, but it’s the only way I’ll buy a 5-7k piece of equipment. Divorced, son lives by the Gulf, partially retired. With COVID, what the hell else are we going to do?

Where do folks who don’t spend money on audio equipment get their money.  After all you can’t take it with you....

And I make money by advising people on priorities and resources allocation. 

@birdscantrow:  I get your question and I think it is a common one.  When I came to this forum a year ago, I was totally unfamiliar with the audiophile-level equipment and brands, and I too thought, “Who can spend $100,000 on stereo equipment?”  I certainly couldn’t. But you learn that a number of the members on sites like this one are/were professional people with high incomes, and some can and do build or tweak their own equipment, thus getting better equipment and sound at lower cost, which was mentioned above.
 
Also, some of these folks have been at this hobby for 20, 30 or more years, so they have had a lot of time to sample equipment and trade up to what they have now.  They didn’t start out with the Ferrari system; they worked up to it.

I also have seen that some members appear sensitive to questions like, “Why did you even want to put so much money into something like stereo equipment?”  I figured it’s probably a judgment that they heard expressed by family or friends, or acquaintances, over years and it irked them then as it irks them now.  It would be like someone here saying to me, “If you are going to settle for mediocre equipment, why bother?”  We each have our own priorities and our own spending limits.  I still enjoy hearing how other members are sampling new equipment that I will probably never hear.  Some things are still to be enjoyed vicariously.  😁

bob540

I concur. I have been in this Hobby since 1985. Most of us have had the (very) good fortune in working up to a Reference system.
Tip: buy demo/used as much as possible.

Happy Listening!

Of course you didn't. Instead, he told you a lot of stuff about his personal economic situation (which may or may not be true, and which neither you nor I nor anyone else cares about), then blamed you for asking.  

LOL!!