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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2019 20:54:45 GMT
Maybe another way to look at how much we should, be paying for gear is to think of it in proportion to your music collection and the time you spend listening, If you don’t have many records or CDs and you spend an hour listening each weekend, it’s probably a bit weird to spend a fortune on gear. That said, plenty rich folk who fit that description splashing £100k on a Linn system. I never think of it in those terms, to be honest, because my listening pattern is so erratic. I might, and often do, spend several hours every day listening to music for several weeks, then not listen at all for a week, and so on. Spread across the 35 plus years I've been buying hifi, the annual cost isn't that high, and is dwarfed by the amount spent on our children's education. But it's a lot more than I've spent on TV; we've never had Sky or any other subscription channels, and our current TV we got for free. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2019 20:55:19 GMT
If I had £100k to spend on a system, there sure as hell wouldn't be any Linn in it!
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Post by savvypaul on Jul 29, 2019 20:55:26 GMT
I was well into the nineties...up for it, mad for it, in fact 😉 I was raising two small children in the early nineties. We'd not long moved to Bristol, and some bloke visiting my office asked me which clubs I went to, as he'd heard Bristol had a great club scene. I told him that by the time the children were fed, bathed, and put to bed, all I was capable of doing was sitting still before tottering off to bed ready for the working day to come, and directed him to some younger co-workers. My first (of 5) arrived in '93. My wife was from a large family so there were always babysitters on hand. Late 80s to late 90s I was at at least one gig a week in London. Plus, visiting my mates in Madchester... |
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Post by Bigman80 on Jul 29, 2019 21:00:56 GMT
Maybe another way to look at how much we should, be paying for gear is to think of it in proportion to your music collection and the time you spend listening, If you don’t have many records or CDs and you spend an hour listening each weekend, it’s probably a bit weird to spend a fortune on gear. That said, plenty rich folk who fit that description splashing £100k on a Linn system. I never think of it in those terms, to be honest, because my listening pattern is so erratic. I might, and often do, spend several hours every day listening to music for several weeks, then not listen at all for a week, and so on. Spread across the 35 plus years I've been buying hifi, the annual cost isn't that high, and is dwarfed by the amount spent on our children's education. But it's a lot more than I've spent on TV; we've never had Sky or any other subscription channels, and our current TV we got for free. I like your observation about thinking of the cost spread across the years. My hobby has given me so much pleasure it’s been money very well spent. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2019 10:26:35 GMT
The banned person is dead, FFS!  |
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