Is your freetime consumed by the pursuit of Aural pleasure?

SolidSqual

It occurred to me today that when I was younger, I had many more hobbies and activities. I played soccer and tennis. I was an avid art student who always had a project entered in some competition. I was a major gamer and had a Bose sound system dedicated to HT, which I LOVED LOVED LOVED (by the way).

Now, I am a committed weight lifter but that's about it . . .

Well not quite. Like many of you I'm sure, I live eat and breathe 2 Channel. I was going to say audio, but that's not even accurate. 2 Channel, period. I spend hours a day listening. When I'm not listening, I'm reading about 2 channel.

Has anyone else experienced this? I thought I would play videogames forever, now I almost never do. I'm just glad I didn't give that hobby up for work.

Is being an audiophile a 12 step program? If so, what step am I at and where am I going?

Mike

Face

Welcome to the club.

ben62670

My shrink told me to get a hobby. This $hit is way more expensive than the shrink, but sweet tunes are better therapy than a shrink. Have tunes, no shrink:D
Rock on!!!
Ben

Early B.

SolidSqual wrote: »

Is being an audiophile a 12 step program? If so, what step am I at and where am I going?

You're at step 8 -- Acceptance

You're going to divorce court, then to a lengthy stay at the poor house if you keep this up, my friend. Spending more time with others is helpful in overcoming this lonely, dark addiction.

Systems

8. Made a list of all persons we had bought from, and became willing to donate all said gear to stereo_luver.


Cleanse thy self.

Chuck

mule

Consider yourself lucky, you have a passion that is relatively inexpensive, dosen't take up a lot of room, safe, dosen't require travel and generaly simple.

NotaSuv

mule wrote: »

Consider yourself lucky, you have a passion that is relatively inexpensive, dosen't take up a lot of room, safe, dosen't require travel and generaly simple.

hhhhmmmm I was thinking just the opposite

I have filled a room with extra stuff not in use...but the price was too good to pass on....think is already getting a bit expensive and thats buyin used....safe I will agree with,except for the ears when tunes are cranked...have traveled to other states for local pickup.. and WOW not simple at all to a simple mind like mine...the more I dive into it the less simple it seems
but I have learned TONS of info I didnt have a clue about...alot of it learned right here...still have so much more to learn....

mule

I had to build a seperate 1 car garage for my 5 bicycles and my gf 7 bicycles, plus the 4 acres for my mini bmx track and dirt jumps, not to mention the front end loader and all the other crap, and thank god I got myself away from the boats before the gas prices skyrocketed and snowboarding, that leads to a bunch of skipping work and travel, racing mx ohh theres a good one, two bikes a year, tires, chain and sprockets, entry fees, travel....

Nah truuust me, you guys got it easy, I would love to have it as simple as being content to just chill out with the stereo.

obieone

You're not even to step 1. ADMITTING you have a problem. You're waffling about taking recovery seriously.
I'm with Chuck. I'd recommend Karma-ing off all your stuff, and try to go cold turkey for 90 days. Then 91,92,93,..etc.