Are you addicted to buying stereo equipment?

[picklgreen]

If you are one of the selcted few on this planet and are simply addicted to stereo equipment than I would like to hear your stories!

I'll start....

At first it seemed innocent. You know, saving up my allowance for that new walkman. I made it into the 90's virtually stereo free (except my trusty walkmans of various models). But then i wandered into the first of many high end stereo stores...I remember it well...it was downtown Vancouver, the place was Commercial Electronics. I was staring face to face to a set of Martin Logan Statements....and well....the rest they say is history....

of course all i could afford that day was my first true pieces of stereo equipment....an NAD integrated, a set of castle speakers and a used Quad fm4 tuner....

 

[gpalmer]

Well, it started innocently enough, my son blew up my Grandfathers speakers that I had been using for years and years and then I decided to replace them with some speakers that would last a while. Since multichannel was coming in and for my purposes I mostly cared about music, this meant some good speakers. Sadly, I worked with an audiophile who turned me on to the good stuff. Many trips to Audiogon later, I though I was done, it seemed like I had everything.

Then I ran into Head-Fi and the story got rather sordid. But I'm almost finished, one more set of HD650s and I'm done, really! No, really, I mean it! I do, I do...

 

[Trawlerman]

I used to be. Some recent changes in circumstances at work has led to some cashflow issues and some belt tightening has led to me taking a different view on things.

Recently i've stopped going into HiFi stores, cancelled my subriptions to the numerous HiFi mags and have tried to keep away from music stores wherever possible.

I can now manage on much less money. For music, i'm still buying those essential purchases and i've vowed to listen to some of the stuff that is gather dust on the shelves - you know, the CDs that were essential purchases a year ago and were listened to once and then forgotten.


This HiFi hobby can be great but at times it gets out of hand and if we're all honest with ourselves, I think we all need to take a step back and take stock every once in a while.

 

[Hirsch]

I can stop buying audio equipment any time. Yeah, right.

 

[D-EJ915]

I can't stop purchasing new things (partially because I've got a lot of broken things), but I've never had a job!!, and I've got loads of stuff...hehe, it's going to be madness when I go fulltime.

 

[pigmode]

Why? Because I've successfully transfered my audio buying addiction to buying handheld propellant-burning projectile-throwing devices and their various accessories.

 

[picklgreen]

It is always a give and take relationship. My herty collection of one of handheld stapling devices has suffered dramatically since my addiction to prosti....err stereo equipment.

 

[pigmode]

Seriously, when my system reached a certain point, I basically knew that only fundamental change (read expensive) would bring a significant level of improvement. Not only that, tweaking is a costly process that has a not very high success rate.

 

[aeberbach]

You know you're addicted to buying equipment when you move house and you can't find your HD600s after everything is unpacked but you kind of feel happy because you know HD650s are just around the corner...*

*a true story. Happened to me last night. But I bet the damn things show up.