I haven't told my brothers and parents about how much I've spent on headphone gear yet. I've dropped hints. My brother kinda knows that every time I visit over Christmas I bring over about $2K of new headphone gear. I just tell him it's stuff I already had and bought used. I just hope family looks it all up on Google and Audiogon if I suddenly kick the bucket before they sell it off.
My father asked me how much my system cost. I told him. My daughter knows too, and besides she knows how to search online.
If we were to check out what really happens to our recycling, especially since covid hit, we'd be disappointed. In Philly everything goes into one truck and then to the landfill.
definitely a Christmas wish book that i look forward too every year, toys for the big boys for sure. a good read on the hifi market, MD often attempts to bring audiophile brands into the mainstream with this catalog. sometimes it works (ATC speakers) and sometimes it does not (Stirling Audio speakers). It is interesting to see the new and other products in this catalog that are not listed online. I get lost for days in the vinyl section. A welcome departure from the online world....
You use that epithet because you disagree. No. No lecture intended but simply a discussion of a different point of view involving a different approach which fosters a different response. You mischaracterize the actions I discussed because you disagree. I never suggested anyone become a “fervent acolyte of the environmental movement” but rather simply contribute in the conduct of “small actions” (my exact words) towards a desired trajectory in addressing a much bigger problem. Heroic individual action isn’t what’s needed here but a rather a culture shift towards greater awareness, and action if & how we choose, as to how we consume. He can do whatever he wants. I couldn’t care less. I was mocking his self aggrandizement in saying “I'm not spending part of my life solving other people's problems.” hence the drama queen attribution. Comical, as if all the world’s travails were burdened to he alone requiring his concerted superhuman skills & attention. You disparage me as pretentious virtue signaling because you disagree. I was not virtue signaling. As if I care what strangers on the internet think of me. But in this forum, many of you are not strangers and I can form opinions on those I regularly come across here based on what they post. Act as you act and be as you are. Agree or disagree as you will. Water seeks its own level. See you out on campus.
Got mine two days ago, flipped thru about half of it. I keep them all as they are very nicely done, first one I kept was 2015 has Springsteen on cover and have each year after. I wish MD would be more varied with their featured artists, so far it has pretty much been American Folk artists.......How about some R&B, Funk, Soul, Jazz, Prog, World artists?? Would love to see Peter Gabriel, Coltrane, Maurice White, Prince, George Clinton........and I wish this year they would have featured Neil Peart.
I find myself perusing all the albums shown and thinking "I got that one...that one too...oh yeah, I've got that one...somewhere. No kidding, they re-issued that album?..." Sometimes I use the catalog as an inspiration what album to play next time too.
For sure. At least paper is mostly biodegradable. It’s just weird to me that there are still locales that do not even have recycling available.
Office buildings have no recycling here. I remember a co worker was freaking out that we didn't have a recycle can in the kitchen.
We do not have recycling pickup at our house (the garbage company just doesn’t offer that for our town, for some reason...), but we do have collection centers where we take things to recycle. It is therefore annoying to recycle. But it’s still available.
When my wife has noticed in the past what I have been looking at in it, I’ll get a weird mix of “that thing looks ridiculous” and “just buy that already, if you really want it...” I think there’s an extent to which she just knows the stuff gets really expensive, but doesn’t really have a sense of the price ranges involved. I think any audio gear over $3500 or so would seem equally crazy/just-what-it-costs-as-far-as-she-knows, to her.
I just got my catalog in. The new MoFi titles this year are disappointing, for the fifth or sixth year in a row. Why are they doing Crosby, Stills & Nash for One Step?
What exactly is the difference between the Audio Advisor catalog and the Music Direct catalog? I get the Audio Advisor on a regular basis and it's fun to flip through even though I'm on their site all the time.
Music Direct’s annual catalog is thick, and bound like a softcover book. Audio Advisor is more like a magazine, and stapled like one. There’s also usually more put into composing the photography in the Music Direct catalog, it seems. More artful. Audio Advisor is a bit more utilitarian, IMO.
Audio Advisor is the Single A version of Music Directs Major League catalog.. to use a baseball reference..
Right! No comparison. I appreciate the fine printing and glossy pages. The book binding is called "perfect binding".
I love this catalog. It really reminds me of the catalogs they we used to get 30-40 years ago and really brings back fond memories.
My wife handed it to me and said "did you order something?" No honey, they just send it to me. But it's huge! Honestly, I'm not sure why I'm even getting it. Really!
And the Audio Advisor catalog is actually pretty good, for what it is! It’s more than most places bother to print and send out these days. MD just goes a cut above.
My wife doesn't pay much attention to the cost. However, she was present at Convergent Audio Technology when I paid for my JL5 amp. So she has a pretty good idea what that stuff costs. She never complained about it. Maybe because she got to know the good people working over at Convergent Audio Technology, saw the facility and the hand built process in action.