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Remember to turn off the equipment before unplugging patch cords at the exact second when this horrible thump went through your speakers? Remember to latch the tonearm down a split second after it skidded accross your platter and bent the cantilever? Remember to let tubes cool down as you watched your fingers become one with the output tube? Acquire the source component of your dreams only to find it sounds no better than what it replaced? Have a friend listen to your system and exclaim "I have an Airline console that sounds just like this"? Carefully clean a LP and as you place it on the TT you drop it? Ever try and share your favorite piece of music with someone who isn't into music? Ever score some good looking vinyl only to find that it was played with a tracking force equal to John Henry's hammer and therefore the highs don't exisit? Discover the wisdom of Roger Russell, Gordon Gow and Frank McIntosh right after plunking down some serious cash for interconnects? Do the "center channel" tweak in the 70's and think you'd arrived.......for about 2 days until you were sick of it? Get caught up in the Quad debacle? Unload a piece of gear only to find out now it's worth as much as your entire system? Loan a friend your best copy of an LP to record and get it back looking like it was melted into a bust of Conway Twitty? Spend any time recording 8 tracks? Nuff said right? Anyway, these aren't pointed at anyone. Just some I've been through and some I've seen others have fun with. One observation of mine is that almost anybody who lives their hobby takes themselves and life way too Cirrus They can be audiophiles, gun collectors bowlers or anything really. Nobody can take the fun out of life faster than a zealot
I love that list. It's like a 12 step meeting for audiophiles!