Colin L
High-tech low-life
Bet he’s not marriedI think I could be quite happy in this room.
Bet he’s not marriedI think I could be quite happy in this room.
I honestly don't know - it's a photo of Tim Gurney's home.Bet he’s not married
Yep. My wife insists on annoying me by calling the listening room "the living room".Some of us have to put up with a living room that has a hi-fi and a TV in it, awfully sorry.
That's pretty horny.I think I could be quite happy in this room.
They are probably less than 1%. Everyone knows an outlier but it s the majority that ‘matters’.Do they live in houseshares?
I never got on with the Etymotics. I thought they were extremely bass light. I swapped them for a pair of Ultimate Ears (the ones below the Triple Fi’s which I couldn’t afford) and they were brilliant for 10 years or more.Listening, years ago, to music on a dedicated digital audio player via Etymotic ER4 IEMs convinced me I could get less mid-range muddle than came from my then contemporary 'speakers. The seach for equivalent mid-range clarity led me to my curent active ATCs. The Etymotics were not budget IEMs but yes the ATCs did cost a lot more.
I've been semi-following it, just to see reactions to someones description of "the best hi-fi in the world". To this woman, there's been so much stereotypical masculinity with some heated posts that have been by turns amusing & exasperating, all for the sake of first world "stuff". I've even seen something resembling narcissistic projection & rage. Heavens! Then I find it best to stop reading & put a record on.I should think most people who've read this thread are climbing the walls.
Oh, we just have other nonsenses! I try not to get caught up in them, eitherWomen are so much less susceptible to this nonsense.
It can usually be boiled down to "I'm more (insert hobby of choice here) than youAll ‘blokes hobbies’ involve spending money on chasing ‘better’.
A particular subset of "better" is the pursuit of "the complete collection of" which seems to be an almost exclusively male thing.All ‘blokes hobbies’ involve spending money on chasing ‘better’.
The post strikes me a truckload of bollocksA particular subset of "better" is the pursuit of "the complete collection of" which seems to be an almost exclusively male thing.
For example, I have a modest stamp collection (QEII pre-decimal, as you ask) which sits there 95% complete because (a) I've lost interest and (b) the few holes are of stamps so rare in decent condition that they go for silly money. I'd rather spend it on music, thanks.
Closer to home, for some of us it's a collection of records by a particular artist, including special deluxe editions and all that, and some of the silliest prices are for stuff which is not necessarily musically compelling, it's just rare.
Ditto books. Ditto... well, add your own.
With the pursuit of completeness comes the need to organise! See stamp collecting above. No random pages here: sections for commemoratives, definitives, postage dues, regional issues, each organised by year within the genre.
I have no idea why this is a predominantly male thing.
or spending money for retail therapy....All ‘blokes hobbies’ involve spending money on chasing ‘better’.
Yes, completist mania. My wife likes music, has a big Spotify playlist always adding to it, before that she had masses of best ofs etc. I always sought the albums out & looked down on compilations. You get a bit of that on here, only the other week someone basically said that people who didn’t have physical media were not real music fans.A particular subset of "better" is the pursuit of "the complete collection of" which seems to be an almost exclusively male thing.
For example, I have a modest stamp collection (QEII pre-decimal, as you ask) which sits there 95% complete because (a) I've lost interest and (b) the few holes are of stamps so rare in decent condition that they go for silly money. I'd rather spend it on music, thanks.
Closer to home, for some of us it's a collection of records by a particular artist, including special deluxe editions and all that, and some of the silliest prices are for stuff which is not necessarily musically compelling, it's just rare.
Ditto books. Ditto... well, add your own.
With the pursuit of completeness comes the need to organise! See stamp collecting above. No random pages here: sections for commemoratives, definitives, postage dues, regional issues, each organised by year within the genre.
I have no idea why this is a predominantly male thing.
Guilty as charged. I think blokes justify it in different ways though.or spending money for retail therapy....
Trickle down economics has long been discredited I’d certainly buy some more expensive gear if I had the money but I’d stay away from the velum end.If I was a multi-millionaire I don't think I'd blink twice at considering some 6-fig speakers, if I thought they'd give me a better experience than more affordable ones and weren't uggers. Why not?
Better all the rich folk spend their dough and create jobs and industries than have it all stuffed into some shell account in the Bahamas.
Alas, I'm not a millionaire so I'll have to do lots of blinking.