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Justifying audiofilia

post #1 of 7
1/22/12 at 6:00am
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I consider myself a very honest person, but when people ask me how much I paid for my headphone system I have a hard time being honest about it. I guess I am almost a bit embarrased as I know people would never understand the experience of high-end sound signatures, depth, resolution etc.

 

Like when someone asked me recently about what my headphones cost I hesitated briefly but I said the right price. I got a look implying "dude, imagine what you could do with that money! You could buy a cheap car!". When on the other hand I was asked about the price of the headphone amp I just got caught up in a web of embarrasment and the words just slipped out of me: "Oh, that was included in the price". Which, of course, it was not.

 

I should be proud of my hobby but I have a hard time with that. I can imagine from other peoples perspectives how silly it must seem as they probably do not hear much of a difference between a high-end system compared to "regular" listening.

 

Anyone else have this problem? Any advice would be appreciated.

 

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Edited by curtainsinmotio - 1/22/12 at 6:02am
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post #2 of 7
1/22/12 at 6:04am

Stop being afraid of having an opinion. You have an expensive hobby. Don't attack people for theirs, but subtly mention that they probably spent too much money on their hobbies as well - going out, tuning a car, buying clothes they don't wear, etc.

 

Also, I usually just say something along the lines of: I kind of don't care about your opinion on this, but I wholly support you not joining this hobby.

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post #3 of 7
1/22/12 at 6:15am

Why do you even care what they think? Most people spend their money on "useless" things anyways. 

 

When someone asks me how much I've spent I just tell them the price I paid. If they're not happy, good for them. 

 

 

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post #4 of 7
1/22/12 at 6:16am
I don't tell anyone what I spent. Its my hobby, not theirs.
Edited by Draygonn - 1/22/12 at 6:19am
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post #5 of 7
1/22/12 at 6:20am
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Originally Posted by hipjazzop View Post

Why do you even care what they think?

 


 

I am not sure why I do. In any other aspect of life, I do not care what people think at all. My rough dreadlocks hairstyle and non-conformative opinions on politics etc gives me weird looks but in those cases I feel proud for being myself.

 

But in terms of audiofilia, I can not seem to feel the same pride.

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post #6 of 7
1/22/12 at 6:24am

I tell people on a case by case basis... if I know for a fact that someone will have a "holy crap" reaction I don't tell them. If it's someone I'm good friends with and they know it's an important part of my life then I don't mind letting them know.

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post #7 of 7
1/22/12 at 6:25am

Unless you go crazy with it, audiophilia can be a fairly inexpensive hobby compared to say, cars or antiques.

A hobby is a hobby, the reason we work is to feed our hobbies in one way or another, that and stay alive/warm.

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