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Is it time to just quit?

Time to just quit?                      
Buying audio stuff?                             
Posting to an empty house?                          
My gut feeling is no one is posting in the regular 'free' threads. Maybe they all are paying to post? I could not know, since I am way too cheap to pay to just post 'exclusive'.  Being natural paranoid, I think everyone is posting over there, not here?                                       
Then I also just hit my limit on credit card Paypal. Now I have to become "verified' or no Paypal.    
This also happened at a fortuitous moment, when I was starting to overspend...             
So no buying OR selling here for me (unless I am willing to get the Paypal CC. Which I have to think about)So maybe the Universe is telling me "Time to quit".???  
Not quit listening to music, just NOT buying more stuff and NOT posting more gibberish.
elizabeth
stilljim
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@reubent  - Yes, you are right. Elizabeth my apologies. I wasn't thinking.
elizabeth OP
6,726 posts
 
No problem. Two guys reconnecting. good things.. All OK by me.
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blueranger
575 posts
 
Hey Elizabeth. Ive been in a similar situation before. When I was low on funds I would reposition my speakers or change the acoustics of the room or move my listening chair closer or farther. Or try cheap tweaks. When I get in a funk I realize I'm critiquing my stereo and trying to be a perfectionist and not listening to the music. When I was 10 I remember the joy music gave me on my first stereo. A $5 AM transistor radio. Now I have built a stereo over the last 46 years that's 10,000 times the cost. Since being out of work from surgery for 5 months I listened to tons of music. So much that I'm a little tired. I just started back to work this week. Maybe its a time to unplug from all music for a week from any sources and start a little fresh with music you haven't heard in a while. I'm also well aware of my moods and when I lose interest in music thats the first sign I'm depressed. For me with the stress of the holidays and with the possibility of SAD it can be a downer. However I always feel great each autumn for about a month and music is beautiful!! Not trying to be nosy in your personal affairs. Your love of music will come back 
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jafant
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Elizabeth

Hang in there. The music will return to you soon.  Happy Listening!

n80
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Last night I got into the moving things around rut. Moved listening position around a bit. Each time it was like "oh, that's better" but after a couple or more moves I realized it was just different. Primarily the sound stage, nothing else changed really. Then I thought about charting the sound stage on paper for each position. But then, after moving back to my original position I realized that none of the changes improved my enjoyment of the music even though they did change the sound stage. That's when I knew I was listening to my system and not the music.

So I sat back, in the original position (which I had deemed to be best just a month ago), closed my eyes, sipped some coffee and enjoyed the music. The system vanished and it was great.
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