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Life, Hi-Fi & Happiness.

Posted by freefallrob on April 23, 2007 at 07:27:46

Life, Hi-Fi & Happiness.

If there is one thing I am learning about as I get older then it is ‘Life Balance’.

At 32 years old I still have plenty to learn, achieve and experience. Now happily married to a great lady and with a wonderful six month old son and a mortgage, we have so far overcome those challenges that life has thrown at us, the most important of all is finding the time, money and space for decent Hi-Fi!

When single and carefree I could happily spend hours tinkering and spending silly amounts of money on bits of wire, cartridges, tone arms and the like, with no real thought for anything other than my own personal goal of audio perfection ( what ever that is ).

Now times are different, I have my family to think about and our ( very close ) neighbours……wires just aren’t worth so much now……

I have been through all manner of hifi components, from one fancy to the next, but never in my life have I been more happy than with my current slightly odd system.

I love all sorts of music on vinyl, from the best of what the ‘ Now’ albums have to offer, to Jazz, Classical, Rock and Blues and I have to say that my current system plays all these records more enjoyably and consistently than ever before.

Sure, your all waiting to discover my secret, why I don’t spend lunchtime trawling ebay, hifi shops and classifieds for the next ‘I promise myself this is the last’ upgrade?

Well here it is, you may get disappointed at it not being interesting, expensive and full of cottage industry components……but it works for me/us, your mileage my vary......

Technics SL1210mk2 with a shielded mains cable, KAB silicon fluid arm damper, Goldring 1012GX cartridge, Goldring PA1 phono stage, AudioQuest G-Snake Interconnect, Rotel RA-1060 amplifier with Russ Andrews yellow power cable sat on polipods, 2 x 5mtr Kimber 4PR speaker cable, Mission M30i speakers blue tacked to Atacama Nexus 7 stands.
Now apart from a couple of mains conditioners dotted about that’s pretty much it.

It’s not the most expensive Hi-Fi to play in this house or ultimately the most capable, but the music it makes brings us happiness at a price, size and convienience we can cope with.

Happy listening!

Greetings from Rob in the UK.

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