yeah, well, I haven't been posting a lot, even though my last post is relatively recent. In fact, I'll have to thank moo for pointing this thread out to me in the first place.
I guess that college has made me lose most of my interest in headphones. The irony is that it wasn't until I went to college that I finally got a "complete" headphone rig: I now have good headphones, a good amp, a good source, and good cables all at the same time. But my interest really isn't there; I have no enthusiasm in talking about headphones, except with kwkarth, moo, and budgie. (By the way vwap, it's no coincidence that the thread kwkarth posted in was related to me; he and I are good friends, and we actually met through head-fi
.) I think the big arguments over AKG and Sennheiser burned me out. I have AKGs, I like AKGs, and whatever headphone preferences other people have are fine with me. If other people listen to AKGs and like them then I'm happy for them, but I'm not going to waste any more time trying to get people who, like me, have found the headphones they like to start listening to the headphones I like for any reason. I've found it to be a sterile, and ultimately futile, excercise of the mind. (NOTE: I do not think that head-fi overall, or any audio forum, it sterile and futile! Only arguing about headphones.) The other reason I liked head-fi was because I enjoyed researching and learning about headphones, but again, I think I've exhausted my interest in this piece of the audio world. Plus, I can't really justify spending all that much more on a hobby that is by its very nature lethargic, excepting of course the portable audio world.
I'd rather not spend so much time in front of my computer or just in my room, since I do enough of that when I'm studying or reading. I feel that my money should be going to more active hobbies, particularly backpacking and hiking gear since that's something I want to get more involved in.
Right now, since I've already gone so long without participating actively on head-fi (this is definitely the longest period I've been inactive when I had complete access to a computer and the internet; any other time I didn't post for a week or more, it was because I didn't have internet access for one reason or another), I doubt I'll ever become fully active again. I should probably resign from my position as moderator, and let Jude replace me with a more active member. I'll leave it up to him.
