Why have we become audiophiles. - Page 3

Since i was a child, i always liked headphones and music. A crappy set of earphones with a walkman was my initial drug. 

I'm an obsessive shopper that likes to buy expensive toys.

I thought it would molest my ears (pedophile-audiophile) and good sound quality did. Loved seeing my music in a new light. I'm not quite an audiophile but I love my music sounding great.

Although my opinions differ greatly from others.

I read about audiophile stuff a little bit, and then at the end of high school I had a classmate who told me about head-fi and had a pair of Sennheiser 580 pros. He really talked them up. Start of college, I bought a fancy soundcard for my PC. HT Omega Claro Plus+. It felt like a huge improvement in clarity.   

  

Then I bought a ridiculously exorbitant set of headphones (ATH-A700, $144), and a set of speakers (Klipsch Promedia 2.1 desktop PC speakers).  Again, my world was shattered and I became a devotee -- the more money I spend, the better my music, movies and games can sound.   

  

So I learned more and more about it. Within 5 years I'd end up spending more on audio stuff than I have on computer stuff.   

  

Now I'm trying to reign myself in, and find an affordable setup that I can simply be content with. I think I have attained that already with speakers. With headphones, I'm not sure. 

I use grados specifically for outdoor use, MS1i to be exact. I chose the grado because it is open, really very open so that i could chat with my friends without having to disrupt my music, also cause it is less clunky around my neck when i have to put it down compared to fullsize cans. But if i sit quietly somewhere for extended periods of time, sure why not full sized beasts?

 

That was my bifecta.  To get music as deeply as possible in me head without bothering the wife & neighbors.

I was hooked on marijuana for 18 months twice or thrice a day and all the time when I was high, I would listen to music and it sounded so fascinating.
after I wanted to quit, I advised myself why not get better headphones so that they sound good without marijuana.
Now it's no marijuana, it's just music that I'm addicted to.

 

For me, it was exposure to high-end audio when I was still in HS. A classmate of mine's father was seriously into audio, back in the mid 70's. (Bryston, Mark Levinson, etc.) His dad was cool about letting us play whatever music we wanted, at crazy volume levels. Suffice to say I was ruined for anything other than good sound.

The feeling of getting loss in music and free from worries

 

Music is one hell of a drug ;) 

When I was a little kid (7-10) my dad would always play music on his speaker system which while not exactly high end, is nothing to sneeze at.  I was exposed to a lot of different music and as I got older developed an interest in headphones.  I found Head-fi at 17, 4 years later and still going strong.  

 

 

you did not mean your wallet?