Since my retirement, I can listen at least a couple of hours each day with only the dogs to occasionally disturb my listening session.
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Has Your Hobby Changed?
I have found that in the last couple of years my audiophile hobby has changed. It started with gear, then the focus shifted to the room and now I’m where I was headed at the start, listening to the music. It’s been a long road to audio nirvana but I wouldn’t change a thing. Every step of the process was interesting, enlightening and enjoyable. I’m looking forward to years of listening pleasure. To everyone on this platform that answered my questions and made suggestions, thank you for your help. It is appreciated. Enjoy the music everyone!
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"Retired"....lovely concept....until reality intrudes....*L* ;) Spouse is just on the verge of hiring my 'replacement'. We're self-employed with an expanding business. Let's call it....semi-retired.....15+ years in the current situation, with the additional 40+ of the 'activities' and experience will be a tall order.... And what gets done 'in the margins' I call 'fire control', a hallmark of small>medium businesses I've been submerged in for those 40... @limomangus ....I turn 73 at the backside of June.....most go 'wha...?!' at that.... ;) I don't think 'retire' and I will live well with each other...😏 I've no real envy of that state....since I've always been pre-occupied beyond rationality, I'd go more bonkers than is currently considered... A 'change of focus' would be more apt in mho of my pending SOTSituation.... (Besides....full retirement would likely drive me more into these forums, which ought to make some shudder....*LOL*....) *evil L*, J |
Yes, retirement can be seminal in enjoying your system. It has been for me… five years retired and fifty years of being an audiophile. I had started on moving from a very resolving system to a musical one about ten years ago after having season tickets to the symphony for many years. Retiring gave me the time to really listen to my system and drive me to really accelerate my investment in tube gear (Audio Research) and Sonus Faber. After doubling my investment in gear… my system sounds incredibly better than my earlier detailed system (I called it my reference system because I could instantly tell every thing about the venue and mastering (( looking back… this condemned the sound)) ). While I used to get bored with my reference system after 45 minutes. I have to tear myself away from my current system after three hours each day. I finally got the balance right between musical and detail and can enjoy my time listening as long a time as I have. |
Gear is fun. Music is life. I tend to go through 2-4 year cycles: get into a music genre, then optimize my system for that sound. Then deep dive into genre. Then bored with genre, explore something else, then optimize the system. Repeat. Music is always first but I can get pretty deep into the tech. Learning Linux to make Roon work reliably was a deep dive… |
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