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My Audiophile credentials were just revoked: I have not change ANYTHING in my system for over a year.

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Posted on January 28, 2015 at 12:46:37
Nuit
 I was greeted today by three men dressed on black at my door. (but all scruffy clothes and sloppy beards, beer bellies hanging out..) They demanded my audiophile credentials and told me to get them back I would have to spend at least $5,000 over the next year on audiophile gear.
If I do not my audiophile status will be revoked permanently.
WTF?

 

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Ah, contentment..., posted on January 28, 2015 at 13:10:05
geoffkait



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mmmmMMMOOOOOOooooooooOOOOOoooo.............. nt, posted on January 28, 2015 at 13:20:51
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Contact me via private AA email..., posted on January 28, 2015 at 14:08:42
musetap
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 I am able to provide proper documentation/credentials for ten cents on the dollar*
that will satisfy and prevent those three stooges from bothering you for the next year.

*May be willing to trade for a phono pre.



"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination"-Michael McClure



 

RE: My Audiophile credentials were just revoked: I have not change ANYTHING in my system for over a year. , posted on January 28, 2015 at 14:14:37
soulfood
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 "I was greeted today by three men dressed on black at my door. (but all scruffy clothes and sloppy beards, beer bellies hanging out..)"

What's wrong with you? Say, three women and sell the story.

"They demanded my audiophile credentials and told me to get them back I would have to spend at least $5,000 over the next year on audiophile gear."

Tell them, they had to knock because the doorbell requires electricity.

"If I do not [meet 5Gs] my audiophile status will be revoked permanently."

Placing a number on status can be a slippery slope.

 

RE: My Audiophile credentials were just revoked: I have not change ANYTHING in my system for over a year. , posted on January 28, 2015 at 14:40:54
fantja
Audiophile

Posts: 15524
Location: Alabama
Joined: September 11, 2010
 Laughing...

 

THey were 'actual' audiophile... not fantasy ones... That is the difference. nt, posted on January 28, 2015 at 15:16:51
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Here's hoping that wasn't the *only* thing that distinguished you from , posted on January 28, 2015 at 15:31:42
bjh
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 any number of other thoroughly miserable old coots.

;)


 

As you concluded in your original post..., posted on January 28, 2015 at 15:35:55
soulfood
Audiophile

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 ...WTF?

 

I believe it is a sliding scale..., posted on January 28, 2015 at 16:52:21
Mark Man
Audiophile

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Location: MN
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 Money over time...I went almost 7 years without any changes, other than the occasional cable or two...nothing over $500...

Then I turned 50 in 2013, went a little nuts...speakers, amp, pre-amp, power conditioner and cables all the way around...(all used mind you)...but I bottomed out around $15K...

I actually got reinstated, BUT they said I need a new DAC, Music Server and Ipad control by the end of 2015 so the pressures on...it can be really expensive to buy back in if you let it go too long...

They also said I could just send Noel Lee at Monster at check for $416.66 per month to meet the $5k a year requirement...they reassured me that Noel would put the money to good use and sue some poor mom and pop place that has the word monster in their business or product...I can just feel all that good karma coming way...I hear Mr. Lee will be named the 15th Dalai Lama...

Thanks
Mark

 

Yeah, it's really a tragedy..., posted on January 28, 2015 at 17:29:16
Jim Treanor
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 when you're no longer certifiable.






Jim

 

if you post your system, posted on January 28, 2015 at 17:41:33
G Squared
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 instead of obsessing over it, you get an automatic six month audiophile reprieve.
Gsquared

 

RE: My Audiophile credentials were just revoked: I have not change ANYTHING in my system for over a year. , posted on January 28, 2015 at 18:33:39
robert920rogers@gmail.com
Audiophile

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 Thats nothing, I came home from work yesterday and my
girlfriend of 14 years had dusted my system.And all I said was "thank you it looks good" .

 

I vote this the best comment so far.. LOL nt, posted on January 28, 2015 at 18:58:26
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Audiophiles get visits from scruffy guys dressed in black..., posted on January 28, 2015 at 20:16:25
reelsmith.
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 I haven't made a gear change since 2012 and my entire system
doesn't add up to the suggested single component minimum of
$3K required to achieve audiophile status.

So, I was paid a visit...



Sometimes its just better to be a music lover than an audiophile.

Dean.





reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.


 

RE: My Audiophile credentials were just revoked: I have not change ANYTHING in my system for over a year. , posted on January 28, 2015 at 21:05:19
Caucasian Blackplate
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 Yeah, and if you spend more on music in the next year than gear, you'll also lose your credentials.

 

J. Edgar Hoover, posted on January 29, 2015 at 05:18:55
geoffkait
 J. Edgar Hoover to Shirley Temple: I don't go all the way.
Shirley Temple: I don't go all the way, either.

 

Then I am a goner. I spend almost nothing on 'new' music. I only buy reissues!! nt, posted on January 29, 2015 at 08:29:49
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You have ascended into Total Audiophiledom, posted on January 29, 2015 at 10:52:40
kerr
Audiophile

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Location: Central Indiana
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 Your system has disappeared, leaving only the music.

A grand feeling, no?

 

I think most of us end up there or downsize, posted on January 29, 2015 at 13:23:00
Goober58
 The rest become professionals/insiders.



 

ME too! The men in gray came and took them away nt, posted on January 29, 2015 at 13:24:43
BillyBenBilly
Audiophile

Posts: 1425
Location: New Mexico
Joined: July 31, 2003
 nt

 

RE: My Audiophile credentials were just revoked: I have not change ANYTHING in my system for over a year. , posted on January 29, 2015 at 14:16:49
daleda
Audiophile

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Joined: March 6, 2002
 Only way I can get mine back is to never post in the cables asylum!

 

I bet if you posted you spent $2,000. on four tiny dots to place in your room......, posted on January 29, 2015 at 16:51:13
Nuit
 And the results were a stunning new sense of realism you never before achieved..
I bet then you would get your audio credentials back.

 

Oh yeah, well I haven't changed anything in my system in 2 days!!! nt., posted on January 30, 2015 at 06:02:13
Justlisten2
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Location: SE PA
Joined: March 8, 2001
 nt

 

Only one stereotype. How about impromptu housecall vigilantism? -nt, posted on January 30, 2015 at 07:58:40
soulfood
Audiophile

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Joined: August 9, 2001
 nt

 

RE: My Audiophile credentials were just revoked: I have not change ANYTHING in my system for over a year. , posted on January 30, 2015 at 08:16:25
Inmate51
 LOL!

Ha. What you don't know won't/might/can hurt you, but... If you get a large bag of specially treated 'crystals' and place them strategically in your room/home, your system will not only sound better, but you will have done it for only $29.95 (plus shipping and handling with cryo-treated gloves), thus saving more than $4,900. You might not even need all of them. So when the goons come back, just throw the remainder in their faces, and their dark energy will disappear.

:)

 

RE: My Audiophile credentials were just revoked: I have not change ANYTHING in my system for over a year. , posted on January 30, 2015 at 11:24:37
thebordas
 Well get off your ass and start buying stuff darn it!! This is AMERICA:()

 

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