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  1. #1
    Join Date: Feb 2017

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    Default Meet ups in Sussex anyone??

    I've never really met many people who are into my passion for hi fi. More of a home pleasure for me as I live alone and tend just to listen to hi fi when by myself. Bought some pmc twenty5 23s before x mas and am absolutely loving them with my cyrus signature gear.

    Am wondering if anyone meets in groups in Sussex. I'm pretty central in Haywards Heath and near Brighton.

    I thought if people wanted to either just go around to listen to each others set ups, or maybe bring stuff round to each other's, if obviously easily to transport (so maybe not speakers etc) as it's a good way of checking out kit and doing tests.

    I'm really interested in such things as power conditioners improving sound, if bespoke nas systems can improve sound quality, as well as dac technology and improving on what I've got.
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    Members here do meet up. I'd expect you to have some not too far from you.
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    Quote Originally Posted by walpurgis View Post
    Members here do meet up. I'd expect you to have some not too far from you.
    A motorcycle forum I am a member of has a section that has a map showing where people are located. Not the exact location to protect privacy obviously. Might a feature like that be useful for AoS members to get together? Just a thought.

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    I live in Seaford, have wondered similarly, and this pursuit of ours is rather weird to most people.

    It tends to be isolatory and obsessive, and most ordinary people can't see what the fuss is all about, but then so many people regard MacDonalds as food.

    Recently a next door neighbour who is a motorcyclist, exclaimed; "Oh you care about the positions of all the instruments and things? I just want to hear the music."

    I also am a loner, and have never been married or had children, and cannot help but wonder if this defines me as inadequate in some way, and that the Hi-Fi is a sublimation/displacement of more normal life desires. (40% marriages fail BTW)

  5. #5
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    Now, now. I wouldn't say I'm a loner, I'm out and about a lot but it's just that listening to hi fi is more a solitary thing to do. The people I know wouldn't really care how the music is played and I agree with your view with your neighbour. It is a shame though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pharos View Post
    I also am a loner, and have never been married or had children
    Me too.
    Came close a few times and have had long relationships but the only time I lived with women, both ended inside six months.
    I get fed up with people (okay, women) saying I have commitment issues : I don't. I just don't want to compromise 80/20.
    50/50 is fine, even 60/40 but not to the point where I'm not happy/henpecked/wearing matching anoraks.
    I know two couples who decided not to have kids for various reasons and I think we're all finally getting to the age where people stop asking us about it .. but we will always be considered weirdos.


    Quote Originally Posted by Pharos View Post
    ... and cannot help but wonder if this defines me as inadequate in some way, and that the Hi-Fi is a sublimation/displacement of more normal life desires
    Definitely not inadequate.
    I think it makes you more interesting, personally.
    Why settle for something that doesn't make you truly happy ?
    We could all get married for the sake of it, have kids for the sake of the crap marriage and grow old and bitter with someone else, but that's the easy, socially acceptable way. It's much more important to be true to yourself.
    Most of your mates are probably envious, right ?
    There's a reason why so many men go fishing whenever they get the chance, and it's not because of the sport ..

    As for the sublimation thing, I don't think so : men like to have collections or hobbies or a project they can devote time and effort to. Like fishing, cars, photography, art, sport .. whatever .. we need that "out" I think, as animals.
    I have a record collection and hifi, a big Subbuteo collection - and still play - and I go to the cinema every week (on my own, btw).
    No shame in any of that and it's not because I don't have kids ..
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    Quote Originally Posted by rigger67 View Post
    Me too.
    Came close a few times and have had long relationships but the only time I lived with women, both ended inside six months.
    I get fed up with people (okay, women) saying I have commitment issues : I don't. I just don't want to compromise 80/20.
    50/50 is fine, even 60/40 but not to the point where I'm not happy/henpecked/wearing matching anoraks.
    I know two couples who decided not to have kids for various reasons and I think we're all finally getting to the age where people stop asking us about it .. but we will always be considered weirdos.




    Definitely not inadequate.
    I think it makes you more interesting, personally.
    Why settle for something that doesn't make you truly happy ?
    We could all get married for the sake of it, have kids for the sake of the crap marriage and grow old and bitter with someone else, but that's the easy, socially acceptable way. It's much more important to be true to yourself.
    Most of your mates are probably envious, right ?
    There's a reason why so many men go fishing whenever they get the chance, and it's not because of the sport ..

    As for the sublimation thing, I don't think so : men like to have collections or hobbies or a project they can devote time and effort to. Like fishing, cars, photography, art, sport .. whatever .. we need that "out" I think, as animals.
    I have a record collection and hifi, a big Subbuteo collection - and still play - and I go to the cinema every week (on my own, btw).
    No shame in any of that and it's not because I don't have kids ..
    You probably couldnt afford them all if you had kids or have time to enjoy them. . Kids do cost in every conceivable currency.
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  8. #8
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    Both good points, well made
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    Quote Originally Posted by rigger67 View Post
    I get fed up with people (okay, women) saying I have commitment issues : I don't. I just don't want to compromise 80/20.
    50/50 is fine, even 60/40 but not to the point where I'm not happy/henpecked/wearing matching anoraks.
    I know two couples who decided not to have kids for various reasons and I think we're all finally getting to the age where people stop asking us about it .. but we will always be considered weirdos.
    Isn't it bizarre how someone who hasn't conformed with society's 'accepted norm' is thus labelled as a "weirdo"? For me, that says more about them than it does about us (as I also don't have any children, but am very happily married).

    I've never been able to fathom why for so many, the feeling towards others who've successfully built their lives differently from you, is often one of resentment?

    Perhaps it's because as we're not tided down with looking after kids, we've not only got more disposable income, enabling us to enjoy ourselves more, but also the time in which to do it?

    I've got nothing against having children [we would've too, had things worked out differently, as we both like kids], but I certainly don't feel a 'failure' for it, or 'unfulfilled' in some way as a human being, simply because I've' failed to procreate', or worse as some bizarrely often brand you as, 'selfish'. What's that all about?

    I've just never bought the notion that in order to be a 'success' in life, one needs to have 2.4 children and a semi-detached in Surbiton.... Or have 'her indoors' popping them out like ping-pong balls, as the more kids you have, the more 'fulfilled' or special you feel. Bollocks to that!

    As for commitment, I'm with you 100%. For me, it's either 50-50 or nothing! Why on earth, without very good reason, should either partner in a relationship have more overall say than the other? All this 'she's the boss' bollocks, which in my experience is largely a British thing, boils my piss like you wouldn't believe...

    The hen-pecked husbands of Britain really do need to get a grip and 'grow a pair'!

    There's a reason why so many men go fishing whenever they get the chance, and it's not because of the sport ..
    That's an interesting one, which don't get me wrong I get works for some, but which doesn't apply in my circumstances. I've been married to my wife now for over 25 years, and we still enjoy each other's company, and consequently do things together [she even comes to hi-fi shows with me ], and miss each other even if we're apart for a day!

    Therefore, I've never 'bought into' the notion of going fishing, or to the pub or whatever, to 'get away from the wife'. For me, it's precisely the opposite, as apart from partners we're also the best of friends, have lots in common and thus enjoying sharing things together.

    Don't get me wrong, she still has her mates, and I have mine, and we enjoy our respective bloke or girly time, but nothing beats us being together, doing the things we both enjoy - and for me if you don't have that type of close relationship with your wife or husband, then you don't really have a marriage.

    It's simply an 'agreement of mutual convenience', often brought about by the arrival of an unplanned pregnancy, which in some ways takes us back to where we were before...

    No, mate, enjoy your freedom. My advice is to fill your life with as many pleasures as possible, and have a ball while you can!

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    Most people play music, they don't listen to it. These days it seems that these people who play music do so when doing other things, background music whilst cooking, driving, running, etc. They cant understand why you would want to sit down facing a load of big/ small boxes and just listen.
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