Backing out of audiophilism for now

See you at the meetings. One day at a time my friend.

Marco

At the moment I am developing a turntable. It is getting to me. I want everything to be perfect but there is all kinds of snags. I am taking it to an expo and it must be ready in 3 days! Expo starts 15 September...

My EC pre-amp was hit by lightling and here in my comminity there is nobody that can fix it. The nearest supplier for the requiered transistors is somewhere in Italy... I think it is the power-regulators. There is a nasty 108Hz hum on the outputs.

My system-room is getting to small and it makes me clausterphobic.

I cannot listen to vinyl at the moment because the EC is broken... So no relaxing there either.

I cannot believe that I went from an almost hard-core audiophile to virtually nothing in a matter of a few days! It is super-frustrating.

The turntable project is a huge money-sucker thus I can't buy a new pre-amp.

C'est la vie! That is all that I can say.
Dewald Visser

Wait!! Look at Pillowfight's setup again. Simple and worth every penny!
Good luck.

It's not all about the music in this hobby. It's all about the music for music lovers. The vast, vast majority of music lovers are not audiophiles. It's about music and equipment or music and the sound of equipment, or just equipment. I can see how Dv could be stressed out. But good luck and Im sure you'll be welcomed back if and when that happens!

I can relate. The stress for me is in the buying and selling (without which you can't really explore the boundaries of your system), dealing with the not-so-considerate people in the process, the juggling of the finances involved, and then of course there is UPS which seems to always "make your day" ... I still manage to keep the faith though, there are still plenty of good folks out there who are both true audiophiles and just plain good decent human beings, quite a few of them right here on the 'gon forum. And of course, there is the music, which always put a gigantic ear-to-ear grin on my face ... =)