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In Reply to: RE: Turning in My Audiophile Badge posted by AudioDwebe on January 12, 2011 at 08:56:44
1)the last 3-5% in audio quality is NOT the most expensive part of this hobby, it's the most elusive and often only exists in the imagination of the hobbyist.
2)when you are so obsessed with ugrades and a/b comparisons that you can't listen to music anymore when you WANT to listen to music and not do a/b comparisons, you my friend have a case of audiophile nervosa.
Here is the cure.
For one month, listen to nothing but Ipods, car stereos, low-buck DVD players, mid-fi receivers and every other form of mass-consumer electronic crap. Do NOT listen to your rig in this time period. Then, change the lighting in your audio room to be more relaxing - use warm color temperature low wattage lamps to create wall wash effects. Vacuum your audio room, tidy it up. Then get some really expensive cheese and your favorite wine. Drink one glass of wine before turning your system on. Then drink more wine and eat some very expensive cheese. You will be overwhelmed with how good music sounds on your system. You will realize that nothing really needs to be tweaked or changed. You will realize that the need for constant change and tweakery was just an idea that became an obsession.
If you still can't stop obsessing about whether or not another wrap of ERS paper on your cable elevators will make a difference and whether or not you can hear said difference, put your system away again.
Audiophile behaviour is learned behaviour. It can be fixed - the deprogramming is difficult but not impossible.
Cheers,
Presto
Follow Ups:
I go through this once per week. I work 12-hr compressed shifts, 3 nights one week, 4 nights the next. On the days/nights I work, I do not bother listening to my system. I don't have time by the time I get home, and by that time I am tired to the point of not being in the right mindset to enjoy a listening session.
However, my first night off, I wake up before dawn and cannot get back to sleep. Wife and kids are fast asleep, system is in a secluded room down the hall. I am able to go in with a clear mind, dim the lights, and listen at moderate levels w/out disturbing anyone. I try to sneak in another session or two before my work week begins again. And each time it is a reminder of how good my simple, moderate system sounds (expensive had I paid retail, a bargain thanks to Audiogon).
So I could not agree more, getting away from one's system for days at a time can be a refreshing eye/ear opener.
I agree with that experiment. But I would add, don't toss the collection! It is a library, dude. Would you throw out a library of books you had collected? Music is a wonderful thing to collect, as rich as any text. Be proud of that collection, unless, well, you just so happen to have gone through this decade long massive German hair metal fascination; ya, you might want to store that somewhere out of sight.
But I would not ditch it. I have two rooms filled with books, and recordings. I feel it is the mark of simply a literate house. Musical and otherwise.
optimally proportioned triangles are our friends
Thanks, Presto, for your suggestions.
The wine and cheese...would beer and Cheetos work as well, you think?
Cheers.
Just as long as you don't touch anything with Cheeto-fingers!
Jim
...I totally agree with this post. And that's just because I just don't care much for cheese! :)
I enjoyed my years as a full-fledged audiophile.
I enjoy music even more now that I've stopped upgrading (I actually downgraded... severely!). And not by a small margin.
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