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are any of your friends audiophiles?

I dont have one single friend I can get into audio.

Of course through this hobby I have met friends who are hard core
'philes like me, but not one of my other friends will even consider letting me put togther a simple and low cost high end-ish system.

One friend now claims when he gets some money he'll let me get him
one of those $650 (used of course) chinese integrated tube amps but it hasn't happened yet. A few of my friends are even somewhat loaded, but none will take the trip.

Of course they enjoy hearing my system, and two even comes to the audio shows with me but that is as far as it gets.

What about your friends?
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unsound
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My two best friends caught the bug from me, like me they don't upgrade often.
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gawdbless
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It would appear that we are all really a hi-fi show, but not all at the same place.
tbg
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Gawdbless, I used to race catamaran sailboats. If you want to see crazies with a passion, you should see sailboat racers. In the big boats they talk about less expensive tweaks as those costing less than $100,000. It was not that expensive at my level but still crazy.
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r_f_sayles
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are any of your friends audiophiles? No, they've all joined twelve-step programs except for me!?

Happy (music, NOT equipment) Listening!
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Actually every one of my friends is an Audiophile, and most of my best friends through life (including my wife) were introduced to me through music in one way or another.

I've been a professional photographer for more that 30 years and have only one friend from that business. He's an art director and recently he has been coming to our Tuesday night meetings.

Now that he too is becoming an audiophile, we enjoy each others passion for music, giving us more to talk about than our life work in the advertising business.

Music is the BEST hobby, it has brought me so much joy I can't imagine life without it.
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