Being alone with your music

My experience reflect exactly yours...

Except i was 13 years old in 1964...

Under my blanket hidden with a small transistor radio with Connie Francis ...

It begin my music journey...

But thinking about it all started BEFORE, when i listened choral traditional songs each day on the radio when i was really young around 4-5-6 years old...

I begin serious music listening with classical choral music and Bach.... After thirteen...Not the Beatles and the Papas and the Mammas i enjoyed among few others pop singers in my teen years , but i listened them less as a sacred solitary experience as for Bach or choral music as a mere occasional pleasure ...I guess i was too serious even young ... 😊 Or i disliked being as others people were... It was so in music too... I prefered books to any sports save biking alone and walking ...

There's this stigma of isolation and "anti-social" associated with this hobby that I think may be a little superficial at surface level - think the one chair in a listening room and some of the judgment statements that are made. For some of us, the act of listening is deeply personal and perhaps even therapeutic. Others enjoy sharing music with others, which is just as great. 

I don't know how much I've spent on my system, but it doesn't rival the experience and value of driving a motorcycle through small coastal and mountain towns in South Korea with entry-level Shure IEMs. I was completely lost in my early 20's and that time of soul searching and solitude, which included a run down motorcycle, headphones, music, and a foreign country really helped me figure things out. 

Headphone, speakers, and components, they provide more than just music; more like small opportunities for some of us. 

I enjoy sitting in my recliner , smack dab in the sweet spot ...  ALONE  

Thank you 

You have to listen alone because people cant keep their mouths shut. Even if they could, theres only one sweetspot, the other spots arent worth much.