AA for us


Is there such a place for us audiophiles: Audiophile's Anonymous? I feel that at this point that I am showing all signs of an addict and I am no longer a functioning addict, unfortunately. 

The only upside is that it is distracting me from other harmful activities such as watching the news x hours a day.

 

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@dekay ......Do you use those 3 items in a combination? 👀😬

2nd is.....for her birthday? 🙄

Been nice being in your digital presence...5's....

Where should I send flowers, and which ones do you prefer?

There is one aspect of this that is a new experience for me. I previously had equipment that had basic tone controls and a manually adjustable graphic eq for low frequencies that gave some control over room modes with a db meter and some tweaking time.

But now with a brand new Emotiva MR1L processor with parametric eq in the mix and this so called automatic room correction I listen to the results of the auto eq and it sounds awful. I have gone back and removed all the eq and done some manual adjustments with PEQ and like the sound much better. It still needs tweaking more but there is so much range of adjustability and in such fine detail it makes making any changes unwieldy and awkward. I would prefer, I think, standard treble and bass controls with PEQ below 100 hz. Some people I think really get off on eequipment with a very high fiddle factor. Me, not so much. I want adjustments but for God's sake make them easier and more effective to use...

On the wagon, off the wagon, put on repeat endlessly. The 'other' AA would be seriously frustrated or done with me.

Should the AA include counseling and support groups based on the specific affliction, i.e.:

  • excessive system cost to income ratio
  • tweaks and cables infatuation
  • flavor of the day compulsion
  • connection cleaning mania
  • golden ears delusion
  • fear of missing out phobia
  • audio gear hoarding disorder
  • fear of leaving the basement
  • repetitive music track syndrome
  • on-line forum obsession
  • others?

yes, added more @mitch2 and I added X that applies to me

excessive system cost to income ratio  
excessive system cost to disposable/WAS (wife approved spending) ratio x
tweaks and cables infatuation  
flavor of the day compulsion  
connection cleaning mania  
golden ears delusion x
fear of missing out phobia x
audio gear hoarding disorder x
fear of leaving the basement  
repetitive music track syndrome  
on-line forum obsession x
fear that wife finds out x
fear that wife comes home first and finds package x
I have to have that junk once in my life (for no apparent reason other than to have it)/similar to hoarding x
search for imaging that does not exist  
obsessive fear that one channel will go randomly x
    pervasive misrepresentation of prices paid  
   irrational perceived impunity from WAF