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In Reply to: Hi Fi Fetishism posted by Tancred on February 21, 2007 at 10:02:01:
Hi,I know this person who was raised around tinkering. Car, electronics, father did the tinkering and puttered, never amounted to much and had tons of junk in the end...in fact a warehouse so full, it looked like a disorder for horading. He was a Bell Labs PH.D at Redbank who lost it...he collected everything from Organs, Pianos, audio, stereo...
His son first got a receiver and speakers, then took them apart, tweaked and ruined them...then got another stereo in his 1st marriage and lived with it ok. Then the internet came along, ebay and TUBES...he obsessed, procured, bought sold, tweaked, neglected his family, kept at his job and spent 100K dollars US for box and boxes of stuff...amps he'd never use, repairs, tweaks, broke a lot of stuff...in the end lost first marriage and almost kids.
Then he had to move all that stuff, store it and 2nd marriage, mor tolerable WAF, wife's father was a bomb sight designer and tweaker of optical stuff...so it went ok. He learned a hard lesson and in great debt lost mos of everything, but because he has a new wealthy wife and a great source of work income, he slowly more carefully acquired better tube gear, refined audio, 6000 cds, etc...then came the next divorce...he abandoned $50K or more worth of classic, rare, audio and guitar amps, most pristine and most well restored by him, he learned from breaking things...
In the end he stored another 10x10 worth of stuff now valued at say $50K total, hundreds of rare tubes, amps, etc...he lives in an empty rented house, drives a mercedes and still have a huge bank account, no real life, no wives, a great stereo and home theater and an air mattress for he and his son to sleep on, separate ones. He was obviously deluded...now he never buys anything audio, at least rarely..he lost everything he had, almost like he wanted to shed the stuff, rare antiques the works...he must have 5 CD Changers, all high end, a few good speakers and say 10000 peices of music...his ex-wifes paid for most of it and he paid the legal fees.
Then came the IPOD and the music server and DVD movies...now he has all his music after a project he and his son embarked on to copy it all to IPOD, all accessable via that and a ESCIENT FIREBALL..nice and neat...again, he owns nothing else, not even a picture on the wall.
Psychologically sound, clear of mind and purpose he listens to music both background and foreground, watches movies, socializes with workers and friends. His son is the highest rated elementary school child in the US for testing purposes and IQ...his son builds lego toys and tweaks, takes apart, etc...
His kid(s) are into sports, animals and toys...finally, he seems to have settled on Air Combat fighter education...flying for $1000-$2000 a year with www.aircombat.com...go figure.
He basically created a swath through his life with ebay auctions and audio/guitar...I swear, he probably has at least the best selection of rare tubes and amps/tuners ever...all mostly pristine and what a guitar amp collection, he plays at the amatuer level.
He maintains that he will sell off everything soon for college tuition and retirement. He is in his 40s.
Still looking for the next best thing, but through valuable lessons and $150K in spending + $150K in legal fees...does not buy anymore.
FWIW.
He is still gainfully employed and has a great income, and a large savings account it seems.
Hope this helps.
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