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    On my 'ashes' record I want:

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    I'll be 63 soon and, though hifi has been a great fun part of life's journey, I'm at that stage where i want to enjoy it, but not let it take over my life any longer. I have a lovely Technics SP10 sitting in the corner beside me, which I never touch these days and frankly, I'm only keeping it to provide funds when the day arrives that I need another camera body, photography being my other great hobby and much enjoyment is still had shooting powerboat racing and the Cosplay sci-fi dress up scene.
    Half my listening these days is via headphones and I could easily switch to them fully if necessary. having said that, I still own my Heybrook 3s, World Audio Design 25ts, and, in the slowest design and build ever, I'll finally complete my Seas/Fountek bookshelf speakers next year. Far too much time and money (all of it) has gone into the new retirement house and garden to allow finishing them this year.
    I still enjoy hifi, but on my terms now, Im not a slave to it any longer, and I'm rather envious of the current generation that can achieve great sound economically. if someone asked my advice today I'd say just get a capable soundbar for the living room and invest $1000 into a capable DAC/amp and headphones, preferably planar headphones (I use Hifiman 400s happily plus a couple of others,) and if the Headphone amp can have a few tubes all the better. Past that I really wouldn't recommend anything.
    Without music, powerboat racing, photography and a whole stack of other stuff that floats my boat, life is just a non stop procession of deadlines and bills.

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    I'd never recommend headphones to anyone. Some small active speakers maybe.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Macca View Post
    I'd never recommend headphones to anyone. Some small active speakers maybe.
    +1. The dramatic in-head stereo of headphones is quite entertaining, but I much prefer the feeling of sharing a space with the music and balls to the neighbours. If they don't like the music I can always lend them my 'phones. Also I like to feel the music when I turn the wick up.
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    One should always consider ones neighbors .. just so that they should consider you(as with ones family); there lies peace, harmony and love...
    Only selfish folk consider themselves only.

    Headphones can be a superb way to listen,
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    I agree with being considerate but reducing your listening to headphones only because of the neighbours is a step too far. You're legally entitled to play as loud as you want from 10 am to 11 pm. Not that I do it often but I reserve the right to blast it out if I feel like it any time from 1100 up to 2200. If the neighbours are so sensitive to other peoples' noise they should buy a detached house. Or kill themselves.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Macca View Post
    I agree with being considerate but reducing your listening to headphones only because of the neighbours is a step too far. You're legally entitled to play as loud as you want from 10 am to 11 pm. Not that I do it often but I reserve the right to blast it out if I feel like it any time from 1100 up to 2200. If the neighbours are so sensitive to other peoples' noise they should buy a detached house. Or kill themselves.

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    Quote Originally Posted by struth View Post
    One should always consider ones neighbors .. just so that they should consider you(as with ones family); there lies peace, harmony and love...
    Only selfish folk consider themselves only.

    Headphones can be a superb way to listen,
    Only kidding Grant, I'm lucky enough to live in a detached bungalow, and my stereo can't go loud enough to bother the neighbours. The motorbikes on a Sunday morning might be a different story, but then I've done a few jobs my neighbour's too old to tackle so we get on well.
    I just dropped in, to see what condition my condition was in

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    Back in the eighties, when visiting my parents' house (a semi detached), it was often when 'Bruce's Play Your Cards Right', and I could clearly hear the old feller next door shouting "Higher! Higher!....you silly sod, I told you to go higher!"

    And no doubt he was aware of my mum's Ditton 15XR's a couple of feet from where he was sitting.
    I just dropped in, to see what condition my condition was in

    T/T: Inspire Monarch, X200 tonearm, Ortofon Quintet Blue. Phono: Project Tube Box CD: Marantz CD6006 (UK Edition); Amp: Musical Fidelity A5 Integrated.
    Speakers: Zu Omen Def, REL T9i subwoofer. Cables: Atlas Equator interconnects, Atlas Hyper 3.0 speaker cables

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    Echo Dot, Amptastic Mini One,Arcam A75 integrated, Celestion 5's, BK XLS-200 DF

    A/V:
    LG 55" OLED, Panasonic Blu Ray, Sony a/v amp, MA Radius speakers, REL Storm sub

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    Talking about deaf we used to have an old boy in the street, a few doors down from me and right next door to my mate's house. Forget his name now, it's 20 odd years ago. He'd been in the 1st world war so he must have been in his nineties. I'd be round there and you would hear the Coronation Street theme tune so loud through the wall that you couldn't hear yourself speak. He had a dog, a Border Collie, that would bark and he'd shout 'Shut up yer bugger!' and the wall would shake. It's a wonder the dog wasn't deaf too.


    Only spoke to him once, his Potteries' dialect was so obscure I had no idea what he was saying to me but the whole street must have heard it.
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