I find myself "tuning out" anymore.....is the magic fading?

@coralkong 

I to have into music since the sixties and bettering my equipment since the early seventies.  Back then I did a lot of buying and selling and building amps, preamps and speakers. By the Eighties my job consumed my life and I barely had any time for the hobby so I pretty much stopped and most of my listening was through earbuds.  I went part time for a while before I finally retired.  In the last few years I have been back doing all the reading, watching YouTube and going to the few highend stores in my area. I started getting a couple of magazines about fifteen years ago as well. And slowly the fun of the hunt all came back. Almost everything in my three systems (a cheap office system, a system that’s all from the eighties featuring some Acoustat Model X’s and a Audio Research Sp9mkll preamp and the main system that I am extremely happy with ( see my profile description).  Almost everything is used or open box and with the new to me preamp and amps, I’ve been doing some tube rolling.  But for me, the music always has come first and no matter if I’m listening to a boombox or a Walkman, I have never stopped listening and that’s why I don’t think I could ever really be bored.  There’s always something new(to me) to listen to as well as those desert island albums that I never get bored of.

I really do hope that you’re not so “Tuned Out” that you can’t still find enjoyment relaxing and listening to some tunes with your favorite beverage.

All the best.

Maybe you are after a new sound, speaking of Paris. 

 

incorrigable

58 posts

02-08-2025 at 02:34pm 

Cannabis is legal in my state so I enjoy some in a stew or pastry with a glass of wine on Friday night and my system sounds lovely. I particularly love watching TV with music on watching ads muted with people looking ridiculous. 

sounds more like some stew in cannabis as opposed to some cannabis in stew

Thank you for posting your thoughts...I feel your frustration at a profound level as I just hate what marketing departments are doing to obfuscating real understanding of what a given product actually offers. Now when I evaluate a new product I look at the features, the specs, and avoid as much of the hyperbole as possible. I have been burned by marketing hype in spite of my efforts to avoid it. It really grates on me that marketing departments are not more honest, but I realize they totally are not honest. Its mostly BS and while I can navigate bs to get to the truth, I do not enjoy it at all. I am in the unique position of buying within the next year or so the equipment I will mostly live with for the rest of my days. This is a daunting task given the level of BS in todays marketing material. Choosing stuff that actually performs vs equipment that just is marketing BS is much more difficult that it used to be. So we are taking a very cautious approach to new equipment in every category. No where am I more afraid that in the TV/display category...so much poorly built equipment and then shipped via the gorillas at UPS to your home only to be broken and completely non functional on initial start up. So many reviews that complain about gorilla installers and shipping and handling. People who have tried 3, 4, even 5 times to get a working tv only to be disappointed by the poor handling of the shipping company. OMG it is just rampant the level of disregard for the fragility of these displays and the subesequent mishandling is beyond moronic. Its very hard to justify buying a display of any significant size.

lets hear it for cannabis...it  is partly how I survived college...and it may be part of how I navigate old age. We will see. Right now, not at all.