Forced out of this hobby that I've enjoyed for 50 years

Oh, I forgot to answer your question. It is Mad Scientist Graphene Contact Enhancer. I ordered two 10ml bottles to try.

Please keep us informed as to how it works out.

Hmm… a report from Donald. I’m going to bet on… let me think… let me think… the latter. :joy:

Oh yeah, I hear things. My system already sounds better just thinking about applying this oil. Go get it before it sold out. :grin:

You funny, Donald! :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

Please, let’s avoid the snake oil gimmicks or anything you may have financial involvement in.

You don’t really want help, you just want to whine because you made a giant mistake against the advice of dozens of people both here and on Audiogon where you have been running duplicate threads about buying speakers for two years. You thought you were smarter than everyone else so now you can pay the price to fix your mistake. As I don’t own Amazon or WiiM I don’t know what sort of financial involvement you think I have. I was just offering you an option were you could try alternatives to try and fix your problem with no financial risk. Best of luck trying to find a resolution that doesn’t cost you a bundle.

Well, actually I do think I am smarter than everyone else. After all I did purchase PS Audio electronics.

You are really sad. Keep on thinking that way, I’m sure your system will get better on it’s own or you’ll lose a bundle. Good luck.

Never too old to pay school fees.

ā€œJust when I thought I was outā€¦ā€ true story: had a best friend - he was an audiophile (and independently wealthy, which helps), I was neither. He came to visit and I asked him to help me sort out a ā€˜reasonably priced’ sound system for my new flat in Tokyo 1989. We went to Akihabara, heard plenty of really good to my ear systems but he was unenthusiastic until he noticed something in a seperate room off in the back of the Yamagiwa electronics store… his eyes lit up as we entered, and it was filled with truly high end equipment I’d never heard of - Coltrane was playing and he sat me down in the sweet spot between a pair of B&Ws pre-amped and powered by McIntosh. My jaw dropped and he just laughed. ā€œYou’re hooked!ā€ I pointed where the Sax was, " right there, dude!". He smiled.

My journey had begun.

About 20 yrs later he died of cancer. I quit my job, decided not to pursue anything hifi anymore (thought it wasn’t a conscious causality tho my wife understood). I sold almost everything at a deep discount, including all my vinyl. Was done forever. Lived all over the world, too nomadic to carry hifi. ā€œDone with it forever. Don’t need it.ā€

About 15 yrs passed. I finally settled down again. Took the very first McIntosh amp preamp set (entry level) he’d helped me choose and I had stored at my inlaws, had it sent to my new place with a step down transformer (120 → 100) and set it up ā€˜just to see.’ Placed a Dead bootleg CD (he had lived with a guy who worked the soundboard) in my old 1st gen Esoteric DV50 and sat in the sweet spot. Had healed enough to enjoy the experience again.

2 years have passed, it is not about money or having the newest bestest or even purest system really. It is all about music. And shared love of music. And friendship.

I am grateful for PS Audio’s refurbished and top notch gear making it possible for me to get back in the sweet spot and share the love of music again with my friend who just might be listening in on occasion.

Music does that - lest we forget.

It is enlightening to hear of the history and duplicate posts. On forums, I usually choose to take people at face value - if I am wrong, there’s nothing much lost. I hope the OP gets/got what he wants out of this. A lot of good will and empathy was sent his way.

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It is all about music. And shared love of music. And friendship

Very well said!

Best,
JP

Thank you for sharing. Isn’t what this is all about?

exactamundo

In 2006 at 56, I had to figure out how to escape an extremely lucrative but very stressful job in management consulting. I sold a big property and my Krell / Wilson / Simon Yorke system, and my circa 2000 LPs. I cancelled my audio magazine subscriptions and downsized to a one box Linn player/amp and a nice pair of Usher Audio stand-mounts. I was happy enough.

And then, after visiting the buddy who bought my Simon Yorke S9 and was about to head to the airport for home, he casually suggested that I take a few audio magazines to read on the plane.

Then, as they often say in mob movies, ā€œI was out, but then they pulled me back in!!ā€

And here I am again, delighted daily by another fantastic music system…

I am planning to get rid of my most excellent system and get simpler stuff . In the ADP way of getting a system that only impresses me.

I am going to get rid of my entire system and replace it with Bose. I hear that dumping great systems in favor of junk is ā€œinā€ right now.

A while ago I was planning to replace my system with an indoor golf center. After my wife’s strong objection, I quit the idea. That was the only time she preferred the audio system over anything else. Although she still thinks Sonos HT for music is good enough.

ouch!