Your Private Audio Museum

After 18 years of living with my disease my wife had enough and split. I knew it was over when she asked me to "dismantle" my sound room. She even sold the nice little system I gave her on ebay. I could not fault her, after all, 40 or so components (mostly vintage high-end) is a bit much.
Afterwards I dated someone much younger than me for awhile. She even asked me out, I never would have approached her. When she saw my sound room she asked me, "what is all this stuff?". I said it was a "stereo". She was flabergasted and said she never knew stereos like this existed. She said she never knew how good music could sound on a good system.
When I was her age everyone wanted a "stereo." It usually consisted of a receiver, turntable and speakers. There were at least 12 audio stores in the Providence area. Now all teenagers care about are computers (for games), MP3 players and maybe video and all the trimmings. I feel so old. It hurts when your favorite pastime makes you a freak.

Nightdoggy-Im starting to become a freak at a young age then. Im 19 years old and addicted! I dont own an ipod and never will but i do still like to play my PS2. I am replacing my reciever with seperates but i dont know if i will sell it, i think to myself this reciever could be used in a secondary rig down the road. But down the road will probably be like 5 years. When you meet your ex-wife did you have the disease or did you become infected after saying "I do"?

my particular strain of the "museum bug" has resulted in my
getting FIVE reel-to-reel tape recorders- 4 teacs and
an otari. i also have two cases of GP-9 "platinum" tape-red painted aluminum reels in beautiful clamshell boxes.
i occasionally play a few tapes on one of them- the others are
for show although they are nicely maintained. i recently saw a Nagra-D-II on e-bay for $4000 (originally over $25k and pictured on a stereophile cover)-
a digital true-24 bit machine. i almost pulled the trigger, but with a strange looking rotary head and software meant to interface with a computer, i sadly looked away...

Jlind325is I became an instant audiophile in 1973 when I was in the 8th grade. I always loved music and had a little compact with speakers which folded into a suitcase-like rig. That fateful day occurred in the spring of '73 when I was going to a private school in NH. I went into the art house and found a Stereo Review magazine. I thumbed through it and was amazed by a turntable I saw. It was a Garrard Zero 100. Its main feature was a kind of dual (they called it articulated) arm. The main arm held the cartridge and the second part, a tube, made the headshell move to supposedly achieve zero tracking error. This was a revelation to me. Wow! Zero tracking error. So there is more to audio than I thought possible. Thereafter I hunted for and frequented local audio stores. I saved up and bought a Pioneer SX-424 receiver (17 watts/ch), a Garrard 82 auto table and EPI Microtower speakers. Since then I've ridden every wave and tried everything there is. The best time to be an audiophile was probably from 1975-1983. You got the most for your money then and stereo stores were everywhere because people bought stereos like they buy tv's. Even the cheap stuff was heavy and well built. I was an audiophile through every relationship and every one of my girlfriends and my ex hated my interest in it. I could go on and on.

Cw, I just have to say I just got through looking at a yamaha a1000 int. amp on craigslist for 250us. Looks nice. I need it like a hole in the head but I still just had to do a search just to uh... well you know. I wonder if there's room on my closet shelf for a third amp, ha!