Never, Buddha. Never boredom. I have more than 2000 lp's and 2500 cd's lining my walls. If anything threatens ennui, I just take it off (or out) and pull another source.

I'm not sure where you are going. If the music you play bores you, you need new music. A new system probably won't help. If you are dissatisfied with what you hear from music you once enjoyed, you may need to broaden out. Try a new genre. The system serves the music, not the other way around.

Analogies are not identities, but, as Freud said, they map out the territory. I coudn't tire of Shakespeare, Yeats, or Blake any more than I could tire of Bach, Haydn, Handel, Elgar, Ginastera, Revueltas, Count Basie, or Heart (to take a random sampling). What am I to do? Check out a new brain? A new inner ear?

Ennui? I think not. Too much unheard genius out there. Ennui? Impossible.

No longer enjoying your favorite tunes? First cure -- find some new tunes. Second cure -- find a new brain. Third (and last) cure -- buy a new stereo...but understand that it probably won't help the deeper problem.

Don't get me wrong. The closer you can get to the excitement of the live experience, the better. But ennui ? With music ? Nah. Upgrade the quality of the experience? Sure. Why not. Get closer to the artist. But boredom with the music ?

Impossible.

Well, sometimes I get more of a need somehting new bug, but even that's usually a sign of being bored with something else in my life. The more excited I am about my life in general the more excited I am with my music and system.

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I have more than 2000 lp's and 2500 cd's lining my walls. If anything threatens ennui, I just take it off (or out) and pull another source.

This is what I meant when I suggested AlexO might be better off spending that extra $3000 on music, rather than on more expensive speakers. We would need infinite lives to discover all the wonderful music that exists. And, even then, we probably couldn't keep up with it all.

Stephen,

Actually, I was going to send you a PM asking you for some music recommendations. You have some very esoteric tastes in music, much of which I have not been exposed to. I didn't particularly care for Henry Fiol, but there was other stuff that I heard you recommend that I thought was pretty cool. Unfortunately, I don't remember which band it was.

So, if you have some time, jot down a few recommendations for me.

Thanks

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We would need infinite lives to discover all the wonderful music that exists. And, even then, we probably couldn't keep up with it all.

I have not thought it this way before, but one cannot listen to all the new music coming out and keep up with it. This isn't possibly in even a narrow genre.

Both really cool and sobering at the same time.

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We would need infinite lives to discover all the wonderful music that exists. And, even then, we probably couldn't keep up with it all.

I have not thought it this way before, but one cannot listen to all the new music coming out and keep up with it. This isn't possibly in even a narrow genre.

Both really cool and sobering at the same time.

Besides all of the new music, I can't catch up with all of the old music. Totally irrational, but it makes me terribly sad sometimes. Then I snap myself out of it, and listen to whatever I've got sitting in my living room -- to Bon Iver or Henry Fiol or Iron & Wine... And I feel better.

Alex, I'll try to put together a list of interesting stuff for you.

Finally, an honest man who says it may be me, not the equipment. Been there, done that!

With Clifton's many options of recordings for the same work, he can probably tell us which recording of that work get played the most. Just as in the Phile R2D4, we get 2 ratings: performance and recording. Both could be bad, but generally one is better than the other.

I have some recordings that sound so great that I do overlook the musical content only because I can appreicate what it took for the engineer to capture that great sound. I would prefer a great recording to music genres I love, but that is not always the case. With some rock recordings we just have to grin and bear it.

I have that old 1940's recording of Nat King Cole at the Trocadaro Club on Sunset Strip in LA that is just awful engineering, but to hear Nat sing and play...that is priceless. I am sure I will listen to it many times again before I kick. That moment makes it special.

Sometimes absence makes the heart grow fonder.

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Alex, I'll try to put together a list of interesting stuff for you.

Thanks man. Much obliged.