Help! This site is addicting!

[jgonino]

I have been active on this forum for the last [size=medium]TEN[/size] hours on and off. I think I have a problem!

Is there some 12 step program I can get into to help me kick my addiction to Head-Fi? Maybe a one headphone a month rule?

 

[digitalmind]

No twelve step, but there is a two step program.

1. Turn off pc.
2. Go outside.


Done!

 

[krmathis]

Head-Fi.org sure is addictive!
Either live with the fact that it is, or do something about it. Ex. spend more time away from the computer...

 

[SR-71Panorama]

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Originally Posted by jgonino /img/forum/go_quote.gif I have been active on this forum for the last [size=medium]TEN[/size] hours on and off. I think I have a problem!

Wow you do have a problem. You need to be logging more hours around here. Take off your coat and stay a while.

 

[ken36]

go out and buy something.

 

[Cid]

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Originally Posted by ken36 /img/forum/go_quote.gif go out and buy something.

If he's that active on head-fi, I doubt he can afford to.

 

[OverlordXenu]

Get a $15 camera and go take landscape pictures or something.

 

[Naris]

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Originally Posted by OverlordXenu /img/forum/go_quote.gif Get a $15 camera and go take landscape pictures or something.

Ah, but will that addict him to photo-fi? Those people are nuts. Afer all, who would spend such lasrge sums of money on a hobby that seems rather eccentric, has a bad bad price/performance curve (at the high end), and be looked at funny? Why do so many not see the beauty in headp...camera lenses?

In all seriousness though, there are many worse addictions than Head-fi. You could've been addicted to sex, drugs, and/or flashlight forums; at least here you can learn to enjoy great music. All things considered this is a good addiction... if you can restrain yourself from spending TOO much...

 

[skellington]

Set a day or time that you can come on and stick to it.
It's a habit like any other.

EDIT: By the way, I mean the internet in general rather than this particular site.

 

[jgonino]

Thanks for the suggestions. I actually have a digicam, but its nothing special. 7.1 megapixel canon powershot. As for buying something, thats the whole reason I have been on so much! I am trying to sell my stuff, so I can buy a new amp, something in the 500-600 range.

 

[Uncle Erik]

Turn off the computer. Turn on the headphone rig. Listen.

If in doubt, buy more music.

 

[OverlordXenu]

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Originally Posted by Naris /img/forum/go_quote.gif Ah, but will that addict him to photo-fi? Those people are nuts. Afer all, who would spend such lasrge sums of money on a hobby that seems rather eccentric, has a bad bad price/performance curve (at the high end), and be looked at funny? Why do so many not see the beauty in headp...camera lenses? In all seriousness though, there are many worse addictions than Head-fi. You could've been addicted to sex, drugs, and/or flashlight forums; at least here you can learn to enjoy great music. All things considered this is a good addiction... if you can restrain yourself from spending TOO much...

Pixel pushers (or whatever they're called) are like the people who spend thousands on cables. Same people, different hobby. It's just OCD manifesting itself.

Which is strange, as I have OCD, but I don't stress about perfection.

It's the photographer that makes the picture, not the camera. I've taken great shots (in my opinion, at least) with old, generic, P&S film cameras from years gone by, and consumer digital cameras, etc. The avatar was a picture I took with some Canon consumer digital camera, that I messed with in photoshop.

I get what you're saying, though.

OP: I read above that you have a camera. Well, go use it. Lock yourself in your bathroom and take a whole roll...err, memory card, worth of pictures. (If anyone knows where that came from, they get a point.)

 

[Kad]

For the past two weeks I've done little else but read and absorb as much as I can from reviews, comparisons and DIY modification/building threads.
This place is a utopia for anyone remotely interested in sound.
*Kad resumes his furious perusal.*

 

[fraseyboy]

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Originally Posted by Uncle Erik /img/forum/go_quote.gif Turn off the computer. Turn on the headphone rig. Listen. If in doubt, buy more music.

What if your computer is your headphone rig and by having your computer on (which you have to do to listen to your headphones) you are continuesly distracted by head-fi?

 

[jgonino]

Actually, I just solved the problem. I moved my headphone rig away from my desk, so i cannot use the computer at the same time.