Have you spent more money on equipment or music?

I'm probably at 1:4 right now, retail.

About 4:1, gear to music.

 

Most of my music is free, which lets me throw a lot more onto the gear.

4 to 1 with it going mostly to music since gear is usually a one time purchase and i've lucked out these past two years buying gear on sale which in one case was discounted by 300.00 and is now back near the 600.00 price. I've also discovered the pleasure of used cds thanks to the local FYE which unfortunately shut down earlier this year but will always be remembered fondly for their positive influence in the neighborhood.

 

 

I'd say 10 to 1 (Gear to music). I really need to update my music library.

My current ratio is bad. Probably 10:1 (most likely more) in favor of gear. 

 

Partially because I had a large CD collection I don't consider as I no longer have it and partially because I'm still trying to get my final 'rig' complete. Once that's done I'll be spending all of my spare money on music rather than gear upgrades.

That's tough to figure. I've been picking up CDs for 25 years (has it really been that long? ) and have no idea what I've spent over the years. The result is about 1,100 CDs, SACDs, DVD-As, and LPs.

Gear collecting has been more over the past six years. I have a better idea of that. However, a reckoning is coming next year when I finish off the DIY projects and sell a bunch of stuff. A good amount of that will be rolled into music.

So while I'm not sure abou the ratio, spending on gear will drop to zero and the amount of gear will be cut. I doubt I'll buy more gear unless something really stunning turns up. From here on out, I'll be buying more music.

Even music will have a cutoff. Probably around 4,000-5,000 recordings. That would be plenty to cycle through for the rest of my life while picking up a few recordings from favorite performers each year.

There actually seems to be an end in sight. I'm glad the gear is dealt with, though. Well, I don't have a high-end portable setup. I'll bite on the JH13 next year. It's the best I've heard and will improve on the e3cs I have. A JH13, HD-800 and Orion 3 setup should have me blissed out for a long while.

Good topic.

 

Over the last 12 months, it would probably be about 3:2 in favour of music, but if I go back further, the weighting toward music would steadily increase.  

 

I expect this to continue too (music dominating).  Thinking about stepping a little higher up with dac and amp next year - but other than that, I'm pretty happy with my current mid-fi set-up.  I'm beginning to explore a lot more classical and jazz though - as well as filling out my progressive and classic rock collection more as well.  So much beautiful music to discover 

Nowadays, music are shared, ripped around and people don't actually pay for their music. This applies especially to the younger generation.

 

If we're talking about purely audio gear that I've purchased on my own, then it's far more weighted towards music, at least 20-1, but I'm also fairly new to the higher end of this hobby.  I have a rather gargantuan CD collection that I've been collecting for decades.  Now if we add musical instruments to the mix (heh) then it's probably more like 2-1 or less.

I feel dirty saying that I obtain music this way a lot of the time...and it's so I can save for new gear.
 

One thing I did recently was weed out all (well most of) the lossy music in my library and stuff I hadn't listened to in awhile. Once I complete my rig (end of next year, hopefully) I'll be actually buying my library and re-ripping myself to insure I get the best quality and have physical copies.

 

So...I'm hoping that by the time 2013 rolls around I will only be making legit music purchases...and paying all the artists back for letting me 'borrow' their music.

 

 

 

ahahaha... -_-|||

perhaps 10:1 or even worse orz..   And most of the few cds I've bought I don't even break the seal, I listen to the downloaded mp3s instead

I'd conservatively guess my lifetime investment is 5:1 in favor of the music, but there's a lot of music I've bought and don't have any more, and a lesser amount of equipment I only used to have, past tense.

 

I've gone farther out of my way in terms of self-sacrifice to have good music or attend shows than to buy good gear. Maybe that's a better indication of where my priorities lie.

Lifetime, it has to be 100:1 in favor of music.  Since joining head-fi, it's probably down to 10:1. I'm in the camp of I don't buy gear so I can buy music.  In my 20s and 30s, I bought almost no gear so I could buy music.

 

If you count live performances, the numbers skew even more towards music.  Every year, I probably spend on live music, half of what I've spent on gear my whole life.