Parents and audio... - Page 3

I've never had this problem with buying expensive stuff with my parents. Mostly because my parents know that I research heavily before I buy and take extremely good care of everything that I own. I didn't get into the headfi thing until earlier last year, but I've been building computers for years now and as any of you might know, that can get expensive too.

Heh, that takes me back to when my mom got me my first AMD Athlon and Abit motherboard for christmas years ago. Needless to say, I spent the rest of the day in my room "playing".

I miss my days before mortgages, car payments, insurance, bills...

Now, in school, I make less money than I did in High School and have to spend more of it just sustaining my life. Enjoy it while you can kids!

When you guys talk with your parents you just have to play the whole "this hobby will teach me about music, electronics, DIY techniques, etc." Show them that $150 is only a small investment and you're getting more than a pair of headphones.

Wow, kids paying $150 for headphones. Yeah, I had the snappy $12/hr computer jobs in high school too, but every dime went into paying for college. I feel left out

I think it depends a great deal on the parents. My dad was the kind of person who bought a $2,000 reel to reel player in 1970 when he was an engineer making $4,000 a year.... completely, utterly fiscally irresponsible, and my mom reminds us (and him) of it to this day! So I guess I have a little reprieve for doing similar, silly things. Still, I'd have been nervous carrying around that much stuff at the schools I went to. Then again, lots of rich kids, well-to-do parents and wealthy schools. One of my staff mentioned getting a brand new Miata for her 16 year old son, and I remarked what a risky and crazy thing that was, and asked if they were worried that the car might get vandalized or something. She replied that it wasn't a problem because all the other kids at that high school had TTs and Boxsters.

hehe...im 16 and i got my A900s....

well i worked and studied (parents paid a bit) for it and i tihnk it was worth it. i mean.. i dont think it really matters how old you are if you wanna listen to music with better cans. im 16 and i'll be using these can a while! quite a looong while too! with a cmoy and i dont have much to change till maybe university or even after university!
so if you use it alot, and enjoy it, why not? parents will be ok if its just a one off thing IMO.

I agree with you.

Most of my largest purchases in audio came from high school, when I made more than I do now and I could spend all of it on what I want.
Now, I have to pay rent, food, education all off.

I think that most of you kids are better off just saving the money up for things that your parents can agree with you on. Unfortunately, your parents know best, and I know for a fact that my parents would have called me crazy, had they seen me spending 450 dollars on headphones (this is what got my hobby started - my Sennheiser HD650s ... sadly I had to return them! - financial reasons kids, learn from it ) but spending 1000 dollars on a pair of stereo speakers they saw as a good investment.

One day you'll be able to get what you want, but for now you guys should be worried about other things: Girls, beer, sports, school. The big four. In order from most to least important, of course

As a parent of a 12 and 15 year old, I would be proud of my kids for saving up their lunch money to buy themselves something that is positive in their lives. I always encourage anything that concerns music with both of my kids. You need to try to understand the positive aspects, such as not having to here you play your music. I am sure if you explain to them the importance to you they will come around.

Maybe some of you could consider bringing your parents to a Head-Fi meet?


It takes a special kind of parent to agree to it, but if you turned your interest into a mutual interest, or at least opened their eyes to the possibilities (especially in regards to the learning opportunities, as jefemeister pointed out) I would think you would gain much more support in your endeavors.

My parents don't know about head-fi, but if they did I am sure that they would be super weirded out.

I think that you should just go with the CD comparison; they most likely would not mind if you made ten small purchases, so why should one big purchase that you would use just as frequently. Good luck, HeadphoneMafia.

My parents mostly suck when it comes to buying audio-related stuff for me but they don't seem to have as problem if it's my money (eg, I got $75 for Christmas and spend $58 of it on my Shure E2c's).

heh, my parents were like that at first when they found out about the sentra forum I'm on, how we had meets and all that jazz, but then my dad found a forum for his car and spends all day on it.

Well I have a similar problem so I'd like to save a thread.

 

I currently own a pair of Sennheiser IE7 and I love them but have a massive ear fatigue problem. I'd sell those of course and I decided to get me some Beyerdynamic DT1350 with a Fiio E11 amp. My mom says a strained yes on the headphones but I can't take them to school and a hardcore no on the amp. She thinks that amp means bringing the volume up on the headphone and she is concerned with the volume being too loud and damaging my hearing. Now the reason she doesn't want me to take them to school is because she doesn't want them to get stolen and I brought up both the point that everyone at school thinks whats not Beats = sh*t and they won't even think to steal them. I also said that what's the point of having nice things and not using them as I would have a total listening length of about 1 hour 15 minutes a day at school between bus and waiting for bus and walking to bus.

 

How do I convince my mom to let me get the amp? I'm not TOO concerned about not being able to take the headphones to school but any info on that would be good.

 

I also want to get a B&W Zepplin, this is all my own money I have saved for a llllllllooooooooonnnnnnnngggggggg time as you could tell this would total $900 and I'm only 14. I was originally going to get the Z Mini but listening to it at Best Buy it sounded WORSE than my current $100 Logitech portable speakers.

 

Ideas?????????

If my parents knew I spent over $100 on my 595s they'd certainly disapprove... but that's why I got my own bank account/credit card when I started college! (Used responsibly of course.)

One of the things my Parents did was let me barrow their 35mm camera when I was 15 years old. The camera was very expensive and what really amazed me was my Dad purchased film and even paid to have it processed. Looking back it was one of the nicest things they ever did.

 

If Parents see you have your act together in other areas in life they are more prone to be cool. The other side is if your Parents see that you need good influences in your life they can also help. 

 

 

My Parents were pissed off when I played their stereo too loud. I still will never forget the view of watching my Dad running to the house from the car like the house was on fire due to the stereo playing The Song Remains The Same at level 10. 

 

The great thing about Parents getting kids headphones is then they don't have to hear the earth rattling rock!