How important is hifi?

[nopiano]

One hifi store not far from me ran an ad campaign (by email) comparing their very good brands (think Absolute Sounds gear) to the cost of a regular coffee.

I recall a TV show where Alvin Hall (was it?) went through a couples' expenditure on coffee and croissants, and it was costing them a mint - and all on credit cards too.

It makes one-off expenditure on decent hifi seem quite good value!

 

[Electro]

I am enjoying a Costa fortune latte and a cake at the moment and I can say without a shadow of a doubt nice though it may be it is not anywhere near as important or pleasurable to me as music played on my HiFi .*biggrin* .

 

[Electro]

If you had asked me this question a year ago I would probably answered by saying, very nice to have but not that important .

Having being without my HiFi system for over six months now ( http://www.whathifi.com/forum/hi-fi/im-really-going-to-miss-my-hifi-system ) I can say without hesitation it is very important to me, much more important than I could have ever imagined .

I can still listen to music via spotify on the computer and I go to live music events quite regularly but I really miss my system , no actually I mourn my system I now know how much comfort and pleasure it really gave me and being without the regular comfort of it has had a real psychological effect on me , as the saying goes " You don't know what you've got till it's gone ".

So yes Hifi is extremely important to me !

How long left to go until you are back up and running? It will be extremely interesting to read your comments and "first" impressions of your Hifi once reinstated. I suspect it may sound very, very, alien to you for a while.

Hopefully in less that a month if all goes well .

The system will be in the same room but firing down the length of the room , also a fireplace has been removed and a doorway blocked up leaving one end of the room with no windows or doors .

It will probably take me a few weeks to get the speaker positioning right and experimentation with the placement of acoustic panels, I will be able to move my listening position backwards and forwards to find the best point with plenty of room left for a good space behind .

I am quite looking forward to all the setup and messing about !

I will start a thread with photo's when the time comes *smile*

 

[Vladimir]

Any audiophiles mummified with Nordost Valhalla cables yet?

Late latte lover laid to rest in Costa-themed coffin

 

[Infiniteloop]

If you had asked me this question a year ago I would probably answered by saying, very nice to have but not that important .

Having being without my HiFi system for over six months now ( http://www.whathifi.com/forum/hi-fi/im-really-going-to-miss-my-hifi-system ) I can say without hesitation it is very important to me, much more important than I could have ever imagined .

I can still listen to music via spotify on the computer and I go to live music events quite regularly but I really miss my system , no actually I mourn my system I now know how much comfort and pleasure it really gave me and being without the regular comfort of it has had a real psychological effect on me , as the saying goes " You don't know what you've got till it's gone ".

So yes Hifi is extremely important to me !

How long left to go until you are back up and running? It will be extremely interesting to read your comments and "first" impressions of your Hifi once reinstated. I suspect it may sound very, very, alien to you for a while.

Hopefully in less that a month if all goes well .

The system will be in the same room but firing down the length of the room , also a fireplace has been removed and a doorway blocked up leaving one end of the room with no windows or doors .

It will probably take me a few weeks to get the speaker positioning right and experimentation with the placement of acoustic panels, I will be able to move my listening position backwards and forwards to find the best point with plenty of room left for a good space behind .

I am quite looking forward to all the setup and messing about !

I will start a thread with photo's when the time comes *smile*

My downstairs system fires across the short length of a rectangular room with walls probably in the ratio of 2.5:1. For the hell of it one weekend, I moved my speakers positions to fire down the length of the room instead. The effect was terrible *shok* and I hurriedly moved everything back to where it was.

Be prepared for quite a difference when you set everything up again.

 

[DocG]

Coffee is good Hifi is good Sex is good Tea su cks

That's fine by me. I don't want more demand pushing up prices

Sex? That's another thing that's gone missing as a dad with young kids. Like sleep I still have vague memories of it...

I don't want to over-dramatize, but [clicky]

 

[Andrew17321]

"To be honest It is not the kit that I am missing it's the music it creates and what it does for me ( to me ) , it's a drug and I am suffering from serious withdrawl , live music takes the pain away for a short time but music on an ordinary audio device is like giving an aspirin to a heroin addict !"

For me, lack of live music (classical, mostly chamber music) causes withdrawal symptoms. Recorded music, whatever its quality, is my methadone. Good HiFi, is a nice challenge, and gives better methadone.

 

[Romulus]

"To be honest It is not the kit that I am missing it's the music it creates and what it does for me ( to me ) , it's a drug and I am suffering from serious withdrawl , live music takes the pain away for a short time but music on an ordinary audio device is like giving an aspirin to a heroin addict !"

For me, lack of live music (classical, mostly chamber music) causes withdrawal symptoms. Recorded music, whatever its quality, is my methadone. Good HiFi, is a nice challenge, and gives better methadone.

Wow is this the voice of experience, of being high, withdrawals, pains and methadone to make it better. Its the 'French Connection' and 'Trainspotting' all over again..!

 

[Romulus]

"To be honest It is not the kit that I am missing it's the music it creates and what it does for me ( to me ) , it's a drug and I am suffering from serious withdrawl , live music takes the pain away for a short time but music on an ordinary audio device is like giving an aspirin to a heroin addict !"

For me, lack of live music (classical, mostly chamber music) causes withdrawal symptoms. Recorded music, whatever its quality, is my methadone. Good HiFi, is a nice challenge, and gives better methadone.

Wow is this the voice of experience, of being high, withdrawals, pains and methadone to make it better. Its the 'French Connection' and 'Trainspotting' all over again..!

 

[Romulus]

"To be honest It is not the kit that I am missing it's the music it creates and what it does for me ( to me ) , it's a drug and I am suffering from serious withdrawl , live music takes the pain away for a short time but music on an ordinary audio device is like giving an aspirin to a heroin addict !"

For me, lack of live music (classical, mostly chamber music) causes withdrawal symptoms. Recorded music, whatever its quality, is my methadone. Good HiFi, is a nice challenge, and gives better methadone.

Wow is this the voice of experience, of being high, withdrawals, pains and methadone to make it better. Its the 'French Connection' and 'Trainspotting' all over again..!

 

[Vladimir]

Very sensible advice.

 

[ID.]

Coffee is good Hifi is good Sex is good Tea su cks

That's fine by me. I don't want more demand pushing up prices

Sex? That's another thing that's gone missing as a dad with young kids. Like sleep I still have vague memories of it...

I don't want to over-dramatize, but [clicky]

I'd read similar articles before we had our first kid and went ahead with it anyway

Overall it's been a trade off of various things. I think the switch to working for myself from home made a bigger difference to overall happiness. Not sure if it's because of more time with my family or more time with my hi fi...

 

[ifor]

I don't think it's ever been my choice to go to a coffee shop. Dreadful places IMO. A decent pub is a different proposition.

 

[drummerman]

Perfect matching cans for the silver strand and Cyrus luver.

I've picked them up yesterday.

Going to leave a few comments in the headphone section if anyone is interested.