Perhaps, you know you've been an "audiophile" for too long ...

DaveyF

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Bill, that's the disease you get when you're a record collector....( we both know this, LOL:D)
IMHO,you know you've been an a'phile too long, when you get to argue about the sound of cables or lack thereof.:rolleyes:
 

GaryProtein

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. . . . you know you've been an a'phile too long, when you get to argue about the sound of cables or lack thereof.:rolleyes:

Please, even in jest, let's keep that in the other thread!:D
 

treitz3

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.....when you think of old gear that has come and gone through your system with the same regards you would with past girlfriends.....
 

es347

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..when anything by Patricia Barber is in heavy rotation
 

TBone

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... been an audiophile too long when you consider the sound of an iPhone as too "dry".
 

TBone

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when you use a CDP to showcase analog characteristics & superiority.

tb1
 

mep

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.....when you think of old gear that has come and gone through your system with the same regards you would with past girlfriends.....

Or even higher regard. Some audio gear might have brought far more pleasure into your life than some past girlfriends ever did.
 

JackD201

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....when you can look at any of your past systems and say "I could've lived happily ever after with that." then hope you never have to.
 

TBone

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You're making me feel old.

Felix, sorry about that ... I certainly had no intent to accelerate the audiophile aging process ... and using a CDP to showcase analog superiority item is farrrrr more Ken's fault than mine.

tb1
 

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When someone says "I had some good S*it last night".
And you think of Schiit Audio before anything else :)
Heh just looked at their site and even they say "You aren't going to believe this Schiit" and "Some seriously good Schiit" :)
Orb
 

treitz3

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....when you can look at any of your past systems and say "I could've lived happily ever after with that." then hope you never have to.

...or when you look at your current system and say "I could live with this for the rest of my life", then hope you never have to.

Tom
 

JackD201

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...or when you look at your current system and say "I could live with this for the rest of my life", then hope you never have to.

Tom

I like yours better! :D
 

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....when you recognize major life milestones by what gear you had when it took place.
 

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