How important is spending time with your gear?

Remote controls make hiding equipment impossible for me. Enough said!

The jungle of black boxes staring at me is not so appealing. 
I DO like the appearance of my speakers though. 
Just having sounds emanating from them would be fine for me.

If it were possible to have only my speakers, room treatments, and listening chair in the room I would do it. I use physical media and remote controls which make it impractical to have the gear in another room. Both sonic and functional considerations are at play for me, and I am sure others.

My second system is full active like you mentioned in another thread. They only require the source and Mini-DSP unit to be in the room. I like that set up quite a bit.

Does enjoying taking out and using the feather duster on my equipment and speakers make me a bad person?

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I very much enjoy looking at my gear while listening to music.  The system is on its own (ground) floor so there is no issue with wires or WAF for that matter.  It's my room and I do as I please in it.  I keep it nice and tidy/clean. BTW my darling wife has more than one floor to do as she pleases.

But viewing equipment as a simple pleasure is not in the same league as listening to music.

Regards,

barts