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Floyddroid
21-02-2015, 11:38
Just frightened the bejesus out of meself. Looking around my cave it has taken on a look of a hifi shop in the home. This is after a cull of a lot of high end disappointments sent to the bay of E, sold on through forums at a fraction of their worth and replaced with more pleasing older or little known products. yet the illness of hifi is still plain to see by my peacock feather like display of my arsenal. I am now looking at storage for the surplus. Please tell me that i will get better? i'm off for a beer or fifteen to think about this problem.
Does anyone else have a similar problem?:scratch:
Just frightened the bejesus out of meself. Looking around my cave it has taken on a look of a hifi shop in the home. This is after a cull of a lot of high end disappointments sent to the bay of E, sold on through forums at a fraction of their worth and replaced with more pleasing older or little known products. yet the illness of hifi is still plain to see by my peacock feather like display of my arsenal. I am now looking at storage for the surplus. Please tell me that i will get better? i'm off for a beer or fifteen to think about this problem.
Does anyone else have a similar problem?:scratch:
First world problems Steve, I feel your pain... ;-)
Still, it's a system to die for mate... gorgeous kit
walpurgis
21-02-2015, 11:48
Does anyone else have a similar problem?:scratch:
Er, yes.
(I suspect Audio Al might put you in the shade collection wise)
Just frightened the bejesus out of meself. Looking around my cave it has taken on a look of a hifi shop in the home. This is after a cull of a lot of high end disappointments sent to the bay of E, sold on through forums at a fraction of their worth and replaced with more pleasing older or little known products. yet the illness of hifi is still plain to see by my peacock feather like display of my arsenal. I am now looking at storage for the surplus. Please tell me that i will get better? i'm off for a beer or fifteen to think about this problem.
Does anyone else have a similar problem?:scratch:
ive found giving it away to the needy cleanses the soul;)
I recently resolved to make the main system the best it can be within my modest means. This meant looking at each piece and considering its role in it. Also the fact that my office and other system barely get used as I'm usually on headphones anyway.
I've resolved to having one thing I love and use often, rather than a selection of things I flip in and out. More clearouts coming in the next few weeks I'd say.
I do sympathise, Steve, but collecting hi-fi equipment, for the sake of it, isn’t something I’ve ever really be into. Everything I own in that respect (aside from a pair of Celestion Ditton 15XRs) has an active role in my system and is regularly used.
To be absolutely honest, these days, hi-fi is quite some way down the list of my main interests, with modifying/tuning up [and enjoying driving] my car, spending time with Del and going to live music concerts/gigs, seeing the world and eating at nice restaurants, providing me with rather more enjoyment than dicking around with hi-fi equipment.
Once my system is settled, other than messing around with ancillary items, such as cables, and making the odd tweak to my kit, by having some mods carried out to the internal circuitry (or indulging in tube rolling), I tend to abandon any buying sprees and simply expand my music collection - that’s certainly where I’m at now, and it’s a happy place to be! :)
Marco.
Floyddroid
21-02-2015, 14:07
Thanks Rich. I kow where you are coming from. And thanks for the compliment. I have it geared to suit my needs and the system seems to work well.
First world problems Steve, I feel your pain... ;-)
Still, it's a system to die for mate... gorgeous kit
Wakefield Turntables
21-02-2015, 14:14
I'm in a similar position to Marco, I'm expanding my music collection. I have no real "yearn" to try hi-end badge-fi and find great pleasure in finding old classic's and then restoring them. Restoring my Tannoy speakers, Garrard 301, and my current project a Sansui AU719 integrated have given me great pleasure over the years. I will always spend money on something that I think I'm going to enjoy. I'm thinking about getting into Decca cartridges and exploring Decca classical recordings. I cant stand hoarding hifi eequipment and had a massive cull of surplus gear the funds went straight back into improving what I already own. :D
Personally I'm not interested in collecting gear (I quite understand why some want to though) - and only run one system. Even so, I've got loads of other bits - spare speakers, arms, cartridges, headphone amp, phonostage, three or four unfinished electronics projects, a half built second turntable (three more in the cellar) etc. I think it's inevitable (that's what I tell myself any way :)).
The Harbeth P3s I bought at the tail end of last year stopped me in my tracks.
I accidently stumbled on the perfect Hi-Fi when I picked up a pair of Quad amps for relative buttons and now just listen to the music.
I have no desire now to change anything.
Bliss.
Wakefield Turntables
21-02-2015, 14:52
The Harbeth P3s I bought at the tail end of last year stopped me in my tracks.
I accidently stumbled on the perfect Hi-Fi when I picked up a pair of Quad amps for relative buttons and now just listen to the music.
I have no desire now to change anything.
Bliss.
+1 :) You just know when you've hit upon the right sound. Quite often it comes from the strangest mish-mash of gear.
+1 :) You just know when you've hit upon the right sound. Quite often it comes from the strangest mish-mash of gear.
Totally, I can't believe the amount of stuff I got through last year.
Bought a Quad 306 on a complete spur of the moment from the classifieds for £100 delivered then the same night a completely refurbed and re-capped 34 pre turned up on PFM and I bought it straight away, cost me £250 delivered and it is going nowhere.
The Quads are brilliant with the Harbeths. I listen for hours at a time and never get tired.
Tony
Audio Al
21-02-2015, 15:07
Does anyone else have a similar problem?
+10 :D
Just frightened the bejesus out of meself. Looking around my cave it has taken on a look of a hifi shop in the home. This is after a cull of a lot of high end disappointments sent to the bay of E, sold on through forums at a fraction of their worth and replaced with more pleasing older or little known products. yet the illness of hifi is still plain to see by my peacock feather like display of my arsenal. I am now looking at storage for the surplus. Please tell me that i will get better? i'm off for a beer or fifteen to think about this problem.
Does anyone else have a similar problem?:scratch:
Not according to me, but according to my wife, 6 amplifiers, 4 pairs of speakers, a few TTs, ditto CDPs, a cupboard full of valves and spares, countless other bits and bobs somehow constitutes a problem? :scratch:
I've looked really hard, but can't find any problem problem:)
+1 :) You just know when you've hit upon the right sound. Quite often it comes from the strangest mish-mash of gear.
Yes, I have had IT and lost it in the fruitless search for that something elusive, and now have IT back again, but that little b*&tard in your head still chips away.........
Gordon Steadman
21-02-2015, 17:17
Well, we have yet to instal a system in the bathroom or the loft so we haven't got too many really. The five rooms that do have working systems in need spares just in case so I don't think it's a problem, just making sure:)
+1 :) You just know when you've hit upon the right sound. Quite often it comes from the strangest mish-mash of gear.
Very true... that's where I'm at right now.
The Barbarian
21-02-2015, 19:16
Just frightened the bejesus out of meself. Looking around my cave it has taken on a look of a hifi shop in the home. This is after a cull of a lot of high end disappointments sent to the bay of E, sold on through forums at a fraction of their worth and replaced with more pleasing older or little known products. yet the illness of hifi is still plain to see by my peacock feather like display of my arsenal. I am now looking at storage for the surplus. Please tell me that i will get better? i'm off for a beer or fifteen to think about this problem.
Does anyone else have a similar problem?:scratch:
Yes till i took a lot to the tip, sold some on. I have bare minimum these days & have no desire to buy any more. 'I was cured alright'
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Oh how I wish.
back in the mid 80s to about 10 years ago, secondhand hifi shops were to be found all over my erm...characterful city of NOTTINGHAM.
indeed, certain roads..alfreton...radford...Mansfield were almost crowded out with them.
I can still remember the almost electic thrill of walking in the door to be assailed by the smell of "out of date" silver kit gently idling!!!
the joy of spotting a rare and underpriced gem....and grabbing it....will never leave me.
none left now.
NIGE.
Personally , I haven't been back into hi fi for that long , but I find myself getting drawn into the habit of spending a long time looking at TT's and Amp's on Fleabag!
I bought some Mission 752 F's a while back to go with my Hitachi made stack ,and after adding a PL-A35 Pioneer TT felt good about my old system -it does what I am happy with !
However in the process of doing that , I have managed to gather some 'less desirable' items , a Ferguson TT that I just look the like of and recently a HMV 8000 stack system , complete but without the speakers , for £60. Its on the other side of the country at a mates house till I find time to fetch it!:rolleyes:
I think my forte is in the tat end of hi fi !
I was thinking it might just be me ? (I had a similar thing about binoculars a few yrs ago , I must get rid of some )
Obviously its not :D
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