Satisfying your audio hifi addictive passion without letting it destroy you is the name of the game, Dave. Stay balanced.

@justinejacks0n

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, I endorse that.

@micr0chap

2 ай бұрын

I endorse your endorsement.@@justinejacks0n

@greatlookinglandscap

2 ай бұрын

Easier said than done for many.My prayers and direction are for those who suffer.Many cannot stop and balance is just a word.It requires action to change

Love your work Dave. Been so busy this week and had to just catchup tonight Just relax and enjoy your channel.

@greatlookinglandscap

2 ай бұрын

thanks🙏

Thanks

@greatlookinglandscap

2 ай бұрын

Thanks so very much🙏

Dave I like the fact that you just bring in equipment that has an emotional connection and is more than just churning equipment. I would rather find equipment that brings a positive change and not just upgrade "fever". It's very tricky.

@greatlookinglandscap

2 ай бұрын

absolutely! I’m gonna do my best to curb some peoples compulsions and void filling nonsense.At a certain point when someone has crossed that imaginary line in the sand.Its not about audio at all the problem lies much deeper.Escapism with money and materials will not work

I think if you stopped making videos today and leave them up they would remain a valuable contribution to the hifi community for years to come.

@greatlookinglandscap

2 ай бұрын

wow a beautiful statement! I know what I am doing is slowly hitting home.I do this as helping other helps me.And I must do it to remain clean and sober.I am the Audio Shrink💪

I'm bipolare too so i fighting my demons too ❤

@greatlookinglandscap

2 ай бұрын

yes I have slight Bp also but mainly ADHD but I do not just spout it off like I see many in life do.I stop them and say wait a minute where did you get this diagnosis? they say themselves😳what a joke!Mine was a professional brainscan diagnosis and not something to joke about is not always a nice thing to live with as you know🙏

@gtronn74

2 ай бұрын

Took 3 years before i was diagnosed by the doctors ❤

@greatlookinglandscap

2 ай бұрын

@@gtronn74🙏you will be ok

@gtronn74

2 ай бұрын

❤

It's difficult Dave. I had to take a break because I felt a conpulsion to buy up gear I didnt need. It helps to take breaks and focus on other things for a while. You should leave the videos up to help others as they make their journey through the same audio obsession. ✌️

@greatlookinglandscap

2 ай бұрын

do not worry I do🙏

Good talk Dave! I think once you reach a certain level of sound quality, something just clicks. It becomes sheer drama. Once you reach that certain level of sound quality AND likeability; I don't think it is disappointing at all that it falls a little short of live music realism. It's more like a celebration than a disappointment. I don't think many audiophiles ever reach that level. If they did, they would be satisfied and off that merry go round of frequent upgrading. Many years ago Stereophile ranked the Vandersteen 2C (suffix?) as a Class C speaker, but mentioned that it was borderline Class B. In other words Class C but real high up in Class C. For years I used that as a personal yardstick as to where my sound quality stood; having heard Vandersteens many times. I would assign my sound quality numbers, with each number representing a 3% improvement. So if I thought my sound was 30% better than the Vandys I'd give it 10 points higher. Or one grade higher, as I estimated high Class B would be about 30% better than high Class C. But after a while I started seeing my numerical system as a bit foolish. I realized it didn't matter what numerical number I reached. It mattered more, much more, how much I liked the sound. Getting the sound to be just how you like it, is way more important than numbers or what class it's in. A lot of people have a sound in mind, that they might have heard at a dealer or someplace else. When I was a pre-teen, there was a major league pitcher who got traded to my home city's team, and he would let some kids (his favorite fans) briefly into his apartment that he was renting, in of all places, the tiny little shabby town where I lived. Major League pitchers make a lot of money, and I remember he had his stereo turned on, and a group of us who were hanging around his apartment could hear it. It was like nothing we ever heard before. One kids parent told their son that we can't buy a stereo like that, we don't make big money like that guy. He's a pro ball player. To this day I wonder what he had way back then that impressed me so. In his personal life, he was known as a real ladies man and carouser. He even wrote a book which became well known and covered his off the field activities too. Maybe you heard a sound that really impressed you many decades ago, and subconciously you are still yearning for a sound just like it; even though you don't realize it. If you can remember what equipment it was; why not seek it out on the used market? And hear if it still has that same MAGIC that you remember, or if how good it was, has been exaggerated and built up in your mind over the years

@greatlookinglandscap

2 ай бұрын

Im all good my friend no more previous time needs to be wasted in consumer and materialism its a shallow lonely existence

@sidesup8286

2 ай бұрын

I didn't mean you personally, you seem to be all set. I meant maybe some of your viewers heard some equipment many decades ago and how good it sounded still resonates in their memory. When I listen to my sustem, I think I'm about done upgrading too. Very rarely does anything sound less than great. Although aeveral days ago I played an old Loggins & Messina recording which I remember sounding better with my old transistor preamp. But I'm not changing my gear or thinking anything is wrong with it, over a once in a while odd recordng that sounded better with transistors.

@greatlookinglandscap

2 ай бұрын

@@sidesup8286I tell people it never ends till you end it

@sidesup8286

2 ай бұрын

I have only spent a thousand dollars on a piece of stereo equipment once in my entire life. Many decades ago. It was an excellent speaker, that four decades later, I still think would put most speakers to shame today. After that, lean times hit financially. I had to buy used equipment and I found some real good equipment cheap at thrift stores etc. I learned to modify audio equipment. I mean serious mods; doing 60 to 70 things inside equipment to improve its sound. I gambled for awhile and lost money, but not as much as most people. I knew moderation; and know when something is a losing cause.I haven't gambled in a long time. But I really learned to do mods that really transformed equipment. Preamps, amps, speakers, turntables, cd players, even tape decks. The mods mostly cost time, not much money at all, but I could get as good a sound as people spending BIG $$..Tben when I was finally "sort of" not financially strapped anymore, I did spend quite a bit on cables out of curiosity, but I bought them used and sold a lot of them for around the same price or even more than the price I got on them for originally. So thanks to experimentation and the vast learning that comes from trying lots of things out, I avoided and sidestepped the whole money trap that can be high end audio..I got very high end champagne sound on a beer budget. But I cam empathize with those who can't stop spending, and have to get their improvements that way. I do always want better sound, but I think I've finally come to a point where it sounds like (maybe), I've about reached the liimit of the source, and the source IS the limit. I still fiddle around and still get improvements, but it's a fun thing for me. NOT a problem at all. When your sound is good enough that you don't need further improvements and further improvements are more like just icing on the cake, a really good cake, satisfaction comes into play and I have gotten conservative with my mods. Not wanting to do anything risky and change my sound too much. I like what my equipment does now. Recordings by musical artists that I always thought were bad recordings, now sound very good, once your equipment stops adding distortion of its own into the mix. Some of that music I really love, and I am so glad to be able to enjoy it in better sound than I ever dreamed possible. So for a very small % of us, there is a happy endinv to the story. But for many others it is a money drainingg and sometimes life ruining experience. Learning to do things MYSELF, was my personal salvation. Material posessions are nice, but they probably won't make you happy. Only you can do that. But I can picture some guy who just bought a beautiful multi million dollar house, on his own million dollar island, sitting there on his lounge chair, breathing in the clean ocean air and really at peace with himself. And reading this and thinking, "What???" "Money can't buy happiness.??"