How important is spending time with your gear?

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

My dedicated room audio laboratory is finished , the S.Q. is too much high for me to go back in a clean and minimalistic living room...Headphones would be better choice if i had to lost my dedicated acoustic room...

Each morning, i open my 12 electrical switches in the same order and i listen music, samething in the evening.... I dont give a dam about the gear which is modified anyway like my little room is.... I love my soundscape where the world is no more...I am with the musicians on their stage or near them...

What else?

I dont understand people who look at the gear....My sound is too much beautiful to keep the eyes open...And my room is so "nut" that my grandchildren think i am a martian... They will remember my room... 😁😊My children are more surprized by the sound... My wife is sure i am "nut" but cannot deny my S.Q. evident quality and most of all i never take the 12,000 bucks i said to her i will need to create my audio paradise after my retirement... She think i am better "nut" than poorer with 12,000 bucks less in my bank account...

I am very proud to say that my audio system basically good cost me 500 bucks...

For me, the gear is merely an ends to the means to get to the highest quality as close to live playback of the music that I can responsibly afford

I have no separation anxiety of the physical media or equipment 

Happy listening and enjoy the journey