I no longer love this hobby as much as I used to.
The only time I was ever happy enjoying music was when I owned an el-cheapo Pioneer receiver with a Dual turntable and house-brand speakers. It got a lot better when I purchased a NAD amplifier and Mirage speakers. THEN, I was also pretty active with OTHER activities, including sports. THEN, music was both enjoyable, a journey of discovery, and fun.
NOW: I own mega-dollar speakers, a huge heat-emitting tube amp with a fancy preamp, speaker cables that could trip a horse. All for the price of a new car plus some left over to pamper my Significant Other. I no longer do any sports other than push buttons on the remote controls ( all five of them).
What a passive, boring, hobby this has become.
In fact it has become a futile gear-lust infected activity, where buying the ''flavor of the month'' amplifier or cd player has taken precedence over music.
I'm almost done liquidating my whole system, and will just go to a small integrated and ,''ordinary'' PSB speakers connected to my i-pod.
I will also get out there and see if I have any muscles left that could put my couch-potato body back in shape again. So it will be cycling, street basketball, and doing other things that I left years ago. I'm not blaming the hobby. All my fault.
Free at last.
The only time I was ever happy enjoying music was when I owned an el-cheapo Pioneer receiver with a Dual turntable and house-brand speakers. It got a lot better when I purchased a NAD amplifier and Mirage speakers. THEN, I was also pretty active with OTHER activities, including sports. THEN, music was both enjoyable, a journey of discovery, and fun.
NOW: I own mega-dollar speakers, a huge heat-emitting tube amp with a fancy preamp, speaker cables that could trip a horse. All for the price of a new car plus some left over to pamper my Significant Other. I no longer do any sports other than push buttons on the remote controls ( all five of them).
What a passive, boring, hobby this has become.
In fact it has become a futile gear-lust infected activity, where buying the ''flavor of the month'' amplifier or cd player has taken precedence over music.
I'm almost done liquidating my whole system, and will just go to a small integrated and ,''ordinary'' PSB speakers connected to my i-pod.
I will also get out there and see if I have any muscles left that could put my couch-potato body back in shape again. So it will be cycling, street basketball, and doing other things that I left years ago. I'm not blaming the hobby. All my fault.
Free at last.