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How does one get off the merry-go-round?

I'm interested in hearing from or about music lovers who have dropped out of the audio "hobby." I don't mean you were content with your system for 6 weeks. I mean, you stood pat for a long time, or--even better--you downsized...maybe got rid of your separates and got an integrated.

(I suppose if you did this, you probably aren't reading these forums any more.)

If this sounds like a cry for help, well, I dunno. Not really. I'm just curious. My thoughts have been running to things like integrated amps and small equipment racks and whatnot even as I continue to experiment and upgrade with vigor (I'm taking the room correction plunge, for example.) Just want to hear what people have to say on the subject.

---dan
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clueless
763 posts
 
Pbb, when I was in college and used my turn table as a pizza carousel my vinyle sounded that way too! The hell of it is those were good days and the music never sounded so good.

Sincerely, I remain
detlof
1,899 posts
 
Yes, especially with a tonno e cipolla pizza!
pbb
1,140 posts
 
Clueless, touchy, touchy on vinyl's Achilles heel are we not? Look if you enjoy it, more power to you. I am just too neurotic to enjoy a system where the recording medium is damaged every time it's played. Call me nuts, I 'spose. Seems more incontrovertible that a vinyl record starts dying the minute it is played than believing that music signals bounce inside cables though. Geez, maybe I'm not so neurotic after all!
clueless
763 posts
 
Pbb, we all start dying the minute we are played. Maybe I fell some psychological affinity with vinyl(we need to talk Detlof). Not touchy, just the truth and the sooner one realizes it the better. You will notice from my last post(i wasn't kidding), I never enjoyed the music more than when the bacon was popping. By the way, I enjoy talk with you notwithstanding our differences. And, with regard to the olfactory issue, have you ever tried noseplugs, I never sit down to serious listening without them.
bishopwill
369 posts
 
Corks, pbb. Corks. A simple cork upgrade can open whole new dimensions in your tastebudstage. I recently replaced the corks in a case of Chateau Montelana cabernet with Lafitte Rothchild corks w/Van Alstine mods ($350 for 12). Wow! It was as though a veil was lifted, revealing fascinating gustatory details previously hidden from taste. Oaks simply became oakier; cherry-chocolates were cherry-chocolatier; vanilla was vanillaier (sic). Tertiary flavors lingered longer on the palate with not the slightest hint of Mogen David aftertaste.

Next tweak for me: Lingual Alchemy wine racks. A bit expensive at $12K for the 48-bottle model but where else can you find that perfect blend of engineering (components laser cut in an argon atmosphere) with high-tech materials (osmium-tungsten alloy tubing filled with Maui sand quadruple-washed with water from Lourdes and sun-dried in the mountains of Afghanistan.

Great things portend. Full report follows.

Will

PS. Anybody know where I can pick up some bottle-neck ferrites?
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