Yeah, obviously.
That's because you have... oh, hold on, I've forgotten what it is you have, for the time being. Maybe you could remind me. Is it those awful, ported, active speakers, which are quite obviously no good at all? The ones that don't come up on wiki or Google?
Lighthearted I know and I know its bad form to come back with a sirius reply but the way threads go into old patterns hits a nerve. A lot of the problems of interacting with people online is encapsulated in this thread... FYI I've a selection of ported
and unported ATC speakers. Bragging about my drivers and rooms is fun (as would be preeningly implying superiority) but I'm aware of what it took to get from there to here and what I have does not feel like mine, it is a Phyrric victory. I feel I own things I should not own. This keeps me in check.
I don't mind other people's opinions on a forum or a Wiki entry or a box with some amps and speaker bits in it even if they are "WRONG, on the INTERNET". If I expended the energy folk do I'd have no energy to learn new things. Bits of me are unreachable, what is, is bleached away by medication, the sessions of ECT the dreadful urges I used to get and now the CO damage. I still feel a bit incomplete, a stranger to myself. I've been damaged but its not like visible burn marks or scars.
I like it on PFM and I stay because I remember a lot of you, I like the fun banter, but sometimes it gets a bit dark... I have nothing useful to say about HiFi, I have some really nice equipment, a lovely room, some great toys (I bought at a time I needed retail therapy) and it ought to last me until I am dead then it can be sold off or Ellie can keep it. I've no need for a CD or record player, vinyl is fiddly and implausibly fragile really... but I made a LP spinner anyway
because I wanted to see if I could, it ended up sounding as good as anything out there within reason -- but I won't/don't use it to taunt other users about their turntables. It has ponies. Ponies = only thing that makes sense to me.
There were even folks who spent a great amount of their budget on angle iron and glass to support their gear.... Who would of thought?
WRT John's comment, a factoid: I spend more on just physically scaffolding my home for two and a half years on its rebuild than I did on all my HiFi in the history of me, ever. HiFi is small money and I don't feel anything about it, I do like what it does however and thats a healthy start for a reboot. I used to have a lot of ego issues but I fight them and now its mostly just an absence I feel about it like a fridge or washing machine, its nicely made even the DIY and restored stuff. Likewise comments about rooms, I designed a lovely sounding room, but again it does not feel like I own it. So I don't feel anything other than relief that I pulled it off with insurance money and any moment it will all be taken away. Ownership is transient and Phyrric.
I have no idea why I am writing this, waiting for some PCB designs in Eagle to render in the background.