[Operaphile-]

I believe this is my new favorite post!

 

[Pietro Cozzi Tinin]

Gosh, hope no one took "obsessive" as derogatory, surely wasn't meant that way. We are on an audiophile forum, where we endlessly parse the microconcerns of a hobby which leaves normal people mystified (as in "You spent how-fripping much on a DAC? And what's a DAC, anyway?")

Just struck by the range of "normal" human behavior. Almost everyone likes music, but most are content to listen to an MP3 on the phone via $2 earbuds. Compare that to using your best surgeon's touch to gently lower the stylus onto a slab of freshly cleaned, dried and de-static-ified vinyl which may have cost more than you dare tell the spouse, then sprinting to sit in the sweet spot for perhaps 18 minutes before you have to get up and turn the disc over.

And there's a similar order-of-magnitude difference in dedication between gulping a Styrofoam cup of whatever's in the breakroom pot, versus tracking down a source for beans grown by monks on a mist-shrouded mountain, keeping the beans in cryogenic storage before roasting them in a countertop autoclave that holds a temperature to within .1 degee C and times with an atomic clock, placing the warm beans in a grinder that's better engineered than most German cars, then rushing - quick, before the ambient air in the kitchen turns the grind rancid! - to get the result into a device that might have been designed by NASA engineers who were feeling steampunk and which cost more than some cars, and going through all that before 8 a.m.

Surely, obsessive is not too strong a word....

Can you be my therapist please? Your pragmatic view on life is refreshing.

 

[Robert Padgett]

As amply demonstrated by all the coffee obsessives on this thread, we do love our rituals...

When discussing "obsessive", we must never forget the "compulsive" aspect of the disorder. My Belle-grinder for $27 and my Mr.Coffee machine were first approved by my counselor at Mental Health, as "an improvement". I had fallen into full-blown OCD, as I attempted to keep up with my peers in the Audiophilia-Caffeine Nervosa subset. Elimination of the hand-grinding the beans, which was bordering upon insanity-- thank goodness for Amazon and an electric alternative and the gramme scale accurate to .01.

I knew I had shifted from the Road to Perdition to the road to recovery, when I drank some coffee from the Seven-eleven and did not collapse into a fetal position, sobbing like a wounded child.

"All things in moderation..." I heard his voice telling me.

I really thought that switching from a single source, ethically harvested beans from the leeward side of an obscure island in the Maldives was a sign of progress until I realized that even Eight O'Clock Coffee has multiple choices of the whole bean...Damn Choices...

 

[Ableza]

Pietro, as your current therapist, I urge you to remember my advice: Don't sweat the small stuff and remember that ultimately it's all small stuff.

You will receive my bill soon.

 

[RickB]

Pietro, as your current therapist, I urge you to remember my advice: Don't sweat the small stuff and remember that ultimately it's all small stuff.

You will receive my bill soon.

So you are a therapist who follows David Lee Roth, instead of Sigmund Freud or Carl Jung!

 

[Ableza]

So you are a therapist who follows David Lee Roth, instead of Sigmund Freud or Carl Jung!

Dr. Roth knows more about life than either of those charlitains you mention.

 

[Zojokkeli]

I’m just enjoying my coffee made with Aeropress and Wilfa electric grinder. Beans are from roasteries located in the nearby big cities. Best coffee I’ve ever had.

Truly the Schiit approach to making coffee. Inexpensive and delicious.

 

[Robert Padgett]

So you are a therapist who follows David Lee Roth, instead of Sigmund Freud or Carl Jung!

 

[ScottFree]

Can you be my therapist please? Your pragmatic view on life is refreshing.

Pietro, as your current therapist, I urge you to remember my advice: Don't sweat the small stuff and remember that ultimately it's all small stuff.

You will receive my bill soon.

Here's some cheap therapy from a Dr. Bob Marley.

 

[ScubaMan2017]

Happy (?!) Sunday, thread:
https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/t...or.php?l=37243535455024252719&a=4&am=1&m=&d=0
It's my first week back in the classroom. I'm keeping my workweek sleep schedule (damn peaceful in Toronto at 05:15). As the sun rose, I'm pumping this through my listening nook.

 

[45longcolt]

Can you be my therapist please? Your pragmatic view on life is refreshing.

While I am qualified to be a therapist, that is to say that I am completely screwed up, I am also retired. Or just tired.

However, my free advice is a particularly good value.

And I agree, everything in moderation.

Especially moderation.

 

[bosiemoncrieff]

Filter coffee (“pour over” as we Americans call it) should precede espresso.

If you drink the espresso first the fc tastes like hot water

 

[SpeakerBox]

Filter coffee (“pour over” as we Americans call it) should precede espresso.

If you drink the espresso first the fc tastes like hot water

 

[US Blues]

Pietro, as your current therapist, I urge you to remember my advice: Don't sweat the small stuff and remember that ultimately it's all small stuff.

You will receive my bill soon.

Don't sweat the petty stuff, and don't pet the sweaty stuff.

 

[Pietro Cozzi Tinin]

Pietro, as your current therapist, I urge you to remember my advice: Don't sweat the small stuff and remember that ultimately it's all small stuff.

You will receive my bill soon.

I think I'll stay with you. You're the only one who's not bothered by my therapy resistant life style.