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In the Thread: Trading cable elevators for spare space.
Post Subject: Yes, this is an interesting angle.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 11/22/2013
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 steverino wrote:
Well, the circle is unbroken. Romy started his audio journey in a basement somewhere tinkering with this and that. He rose for a time into the light and now has descended once more. However this time it is called the Bunker. Welcome back!
Yes, I was thinking about it myself. I do not think that it is some kind of recursive arc. I still very much have interest in better Sound that main system for sure delivers. However, what I discovered recently is that listening playback in the way how I accustom is not just sound but an intricate collection of different sensations. I love to have a nice cigar while I am listening. I do not do it in main listening room and it does affect my listening experience.
Now we reached a very intricate questions: what is better- to have great sound or to have so-so sound but be able to smoke some kind artisan’s blend of tobacco while listening? For sure I would say that the better sound is better BUT not all time. Sometimes, it is nice to sit inappropriately comfortable, listen some Brahms, insult people online and poison myself with smoke. During that time I do not need any special sound and to me the basement sound is fine enough.

There is another aspect. Amy and I have kind of same taste in music. As I play my Bruckner or back and she home she has a tenancy to gravitate to listening couch. As she does so we kind of have tendency to become a bit too sensual and it prevents me to maintain myself in the relatively narrow sweat spot. Not that I complaint but I do not like sound of playback during that as I prefer to listen Amy instead of music. She does not go to basement, so I am at my own in there, at least for now and I do know that it will be chair in there not couch.

I do not think that am giving up with “positions” whatever they are. I however feel that there is some very freakish fun to sit in the room furnished with large capacitors, oscilloscopes and large drivers, listen WTC, smoke a big pipe and to feel that my little childish male secret pleasure does not bother anyone. I might go over it in future but for now I am having good time.  I do think I need go back to full-time work…. 

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