How important is spending time with your gear?


In another topic we're talking about digital input speakers, and it got me thinking about something entirely different. 

How important is it to spend time physically close to your gear, vs. enjoying it's output?  If you could have your gear in another room, or closet, and you were left with just your speakers with no audible downside would you do it?  Would you put your gear away and enjoy the empty space or do you need the physical closeness?

Clearly turntables make this a challenge, and there will be some poopy heads which don't get the question or can't stretch their imagination but for those who can, would you?

erik_squires

Equipment is a means to an end for me.  It's all about the music.  I have never chosen a piece of gear because it was aesthetically pleasing.  On the contrary, I've wound up some gear that I would pretty much describe as ugly.

I would probably have all my gear in a side room except maybe the power amp and speakers, assuming I could afford a butler to lower and raise the tonearm at the beginning and end of the record.

I did kind of imagine if you hid everything you'd still have a tablet or phone like device to control everything.  That remote doesn't count.

"You need to know how little I can relate to the discussion you started"

is a unique form of non-participation participation

"You need to know how little I can relate to the discussion you started"

 

LOL. You (Erik) need to know that... why? Answer: you don't need to know that, and neither does anyone else. It's pure flotsam. Ephemera. Noise. Given by someone who sees it as worth their time to deliver it.

@maxwave 

Mine is a HD as well and I’d probably do the same if I wasn’t married.  😁

Have a great day!