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I've learned to be alone when I just want to listen to music w/o interruption.  Most people have never really sat quiet and just listen to the music. they  use music as a secondary or background. And there is  a time and place for it all. In the party 70's I generally kept the music going. i learned to suspend the turntable from the ceiling back then. Then too, it didn't weigh 135 lbs like my Teres does. Thats the beauty of suspended TT's. They are light enough to hang and I would still do that today if I had a suspended table.

BTW congrats on a nice system.and good story

@larsman I completely concur, ain't no rules and did not intend to imply as such

One of the beauties of our hobby is the only rules or boundaries are between the confines of the ears of the beholder

No right or wrong, only different and they all matter

I do a little singing at times but more of an air guitar guy myself

Rock on brother and enjoy the journey

@artemus_5 I am with you 100%. 

I've learned to be alone when I just want to listen to music w/o interruption.

For the most part, being a so called Audiophile is a lonely journey.

All I can say is time has changed.   Back in the 70's, going to friends' houses to listen to their sound systems and album collections was a pretty common social event.

Ah yes, @xcool ,  that does bring back the memories.

We'd get together after work or on the weekends and fire up my Magnavox receiver and put in an 8-Track or put on an LP and the peace pipe would come out. . . .   We didn't know what imaging or sound stage or transparency was . . . but we sure had fun.  Now my sound is in a completely different league, but I don't have near as much fun.