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Post Subject: About audio hoardingPosted by Romy the Cat on: 2/3/2018
Last year Amy’s
parents began considering to move closer to us. They are at their high 70s,
with own health problems and with a desire to spend more time with grandkids…
nothing different then with many other families... They were looking for various
houses and most of these that were good for them they passed because they have
too much stuff in their home and they do not know how to part with it. Again, nothing
different then with many other families, it will be addressed as it is typically
addressed…
We have in
our house a library that Amy adopted for her office, where she does her work
notes. In the library we have a low table where kids play Legos, and this is
the only room where Legos are allowed. So, naturally we have a lot of Legos
boxes in the library, which require a lot of room to store them. My proposal to
get rid of some books that we do not care Amy did not like. She want to have a
lot of books in there that gives to her a feeling that we’re some kind of intellectuals,
the woman know how deceive herself… and I do let her to have her little feminine
fun…
There is one shelf
in the library that has ton of the Audio magazines from 80s and 90. All of these
hand selected copies of Fi, Ultimate Audio, European, Russian and Japanese journals
were sitting in there. One day I was putting the behavior of my parents-in-law
and my attachments to those magazines in perspective. I realized that I NEVER
IN MY LIFE AGAIN will be reading these magazines. So, I took all of them and
trashed them. Now it is a large shelf with Legos…
The moral of
the story is not my Hercules actions to clean up my Augeas' audio stables. The
story about the worthless to me publications opened up to me an avenue to think
about our general audio hoarding habits.
I am sure
that any single person who read this post how has somewhere in storages, basements
or closet many duplicate drivers, cartridges, cables, etc… all imaginable tweaks,
not to mention many duplicates of the main components. I am sure that all of it
has own rational but let ask ourselves reciting the famous colloquialism: How
Much Land Does a Man Need? It is not that the hoarded audio possessions constitute
a waste of space and money but rather I feel that our hoarded audio possessions
own us instead we own them. I have a LOT of my hoarded audio belongings that I
can rationalize and convince myself that I need. At the same time, I can
advocate that I have a lot of hoarded audio possessions that I absolutely do
not need and that I trash with no regrets or damage to my life. The question:
why don’t I do it typically?
Years back, I
proposed a rule that I feel should navigate a sensible person in audio hobby
and the rule to a great degree is a basic of my approach in audio. It was silently posted and even if I refer frequently
to that rule the people at this site I know that it is very far from become a common
awareness of the people in audio:
http://www.goodsoundclub.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=432
I wonder if I
should recommend (just for fulfilling of my desire for audio immortality) something
similar as the audio anti-hoarding preventive measures? How about that: IF YOU
MADE ANY SENSIBLE CHANGE IN YOUR PLAYBACK THEN GET RID THE REPLACED ITEM. The
definition is “sensible” read in my linked post above.
What I am
proposing does not sound very practical for anybody who realistically practice
audio but truthfully, if we adopt what I proposed then all that we have to
loose be just money to re-acquire the replaced item, and boy we have plenty of
that to waste in High-End audio! There is even a self-educational effect in
what I am proposing. If we know that a replacement of an amplifier, driver or
tonearn would mean an automatic elimination all a former amplifier, driver or tonearn
then would it make our REASONING FOR CHANGE TO BE MORE SCRUPULOUS?
Do not feel
that I am going with all of it anywhere. I perfectly understand that in many instances
the anti-hoarding prevention in audio is very hard to implement. Still, I would
like to share with your my feelings of joy, pleasure and FREEDOM that I experienced
when I trashed my precious audio publications. Anyhow, I do feel that the idiots
who run the audio industry would make a great contribution to audio humanity if
they declare some kind of weekend in a year as the official “Audio Positions
Liberation Weekend”… that would for sure be followed with a opportunistic audio sale….
Rgs,
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