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[fisher X 100 A]

I have not been on here a while - due to broken arm, finding out I am going to be a father, study and assignments. It looks to me that the whole Hi-Fi market has shut shop? Not many posting going on here, Tardme is very quiet with Hi-Fi.......is this just my poor observation or a real outlook on our economy?:confused:

[omegaspeedy]

I have not been on here a while - due to broken arm, finding out I am going to be a father, study and assignments. It looks to me that the whole Hi-Fi market has shut shop? Not many posting going on here, Tardme is very quiet with Hi-Fi.......is this just my poor observation or a real outlook on our economy?:confused:

Hi fisher, the way I see it, it's always quiet in this forum in the weekends and more active during the week. I don't know if you can judge the condition of the hifi industry based on TM and how active it is in here. From what I've seen AEnz swings in big roundabouts. The current economy can't be helping matters but talking to the good boys at TAO, they are still selling healthy (Sustainable in a business sense) quantities of gear.

It'll all pick up again soon I reckon. Congratulations on your news Father to be!:)

[cloth_ears]

Agreed about TradeMe. Viewing numbers on my auctions have dropped considerably, but direct sales to returning customers and their friends is very healthy.

[sirAndy]

Remember it's right before Xmas too.

Last year just before Christmas I bought my Spendors and I bought my Well Tempered in October just gone which, frankly, was a little too close this year.

Times are a bit tougher but there are still people out there with plenty of money and they're spending it. Alas I'm not one of them.

[maxgate]

I have not been on here a while - due to broken arm, finding out I am going to be a father, study and assignments. It looks to me that the whole Hi-Fi market has shut shop? Not many posting going on here, Tardme is very quiet with Hi-Fi.......is this just my poor observation or a real outlook on our economy?:confused:

'...finding out I am going to be a father' rather outweighs audio matters. Congratulations!

Like many here I think daily about music, occasionally about gear (usually when I am unhappy with the sound of what I have) and hardly at all about that supposedly compelling abstraction 'the market'.

While respecting their skills I don't have the professional interest of Gary M., Antipodes, Cloth Ears, Omegaspeedy, Ernie, Kaka, Neil et al. So I don't care what this season's releases are, nor am I bothered by who's hot - I'm not.

For me music is a primary means to escape quotidian pressures; to enter a place that is private, privileged, almost timeless. I don't post much because I rarely have anything to add to what more informed members have said. But I like to listen.

[Papa Hemi]

'...finding out I am going to be a father' rather outweighs audio matters. Congratulations!

Like many here I think daily about music, occasionally about gear (usually when I am unhappy with the sound of what I have) and hardly at all about that supposedly compelling abstraction 'the market'.

While respecting their skills I don't have the professional interest of Gary M., Antipodes, Cloth Ears, Omegaspeedy, Ernie, Kaka, Neil et al. So I don't care what this season's releases are, nor am I bothered by who's hot - I'm not.

For me music is a primary means to escape quotidian pressures; to enter a place that is private, privileged, almost timeless. I don't post much because I rarely have anything to add to what more informed members have said. But I like to listen.

yeah - wot he sed

[fisher X 100 A]

I think being a Father will strip me of my audio possessions, dam little fingers touching. I have time to figure out where to put the TT and baby proof the house.

Bugger being a student at mo due to the new "Vinyl Countdown" opening in New Plymouth!

Vinyl will never die anyway!

[maxgate]

Fortunately baby shops (that's where you buy readymade nippers if you can't be bothered making them) will help protect your stereo gear...

Buy a child's play pen but, instead of putting the nipper inside, put your stereo there.

Cabling runs that go beyond this fortress can be consolidated in plastic piping. Then, when the nipper starts crawling, they can't reach. Of course, changing records is going to be a chore...

Still, they say that you have to make sacrifices - at least one - to bring up kids.

[Ernie]

Congrats Mr F. I got rid of my glassware when my girls came along. (sob). A pair of Quad IIs and a cranky Counterpoint pre.

Now consigned to a receiver and other bits, but the girls are getting older and quite good for volume control. I get's better and better. Have fun. They are not little for very long...

[Cooksferry]

If I was going through the the fatherhood/young children scene again I'd invest in a computer/dac/headphone system that can be kept out of the way of inquisitive fingers and forget the vinyl speaker setup unless you follow Maxgates advice and put a playpen around everything.
Great time as a parent though,congrats and have fun.

[Ernie]

Um, yes Mr Cooks. That indeed was the initial impetus for the leap into things head-fi.

[Owen Young]

Not sure why, but my kids (2) did not give rise to any problems, hifi destruction/hazard-wise.

Congrats too.

[cloth_ears]

When they get to the toddler stage keep the covers on your speakers and if they are ported, find something to block them up.

Chances are though that you'll have more problems with your friends kids, and then later on your kids friends than you will with your own kids.

[davyboy9]

First congrats on parenthood. Of course you did it all on your own. Anyway didn't anyone tell you that babies aren't the problem it's when they start moving that trouble starts.
Expensive hifi is like decent cars, you can't afford both so best to wait until they've flown the nest and you have more disposable income.
Oh forgot, that's when grandkids come along and the whole process starts again.
Enjoy.

[fisher X 100 A]

Thank you guys - We are going to find a way to keep our present set up, we both love listening to music. So far I am toying with increasing the height of the speakers, just trialing the new height out now - and no toddler will be able to finger the cone or put dolls down the port, just the topple over affect to cure.......maybe extra wide base?

[cloth_ears]

maybe extra wide base?

Looking at the speaker in your avatar I was thinking the same thing.

My floorstanding speakers have been knocked over once (luckily no damage), and now sport a wide plinth to stop reoccurences.

[SugdenA21]

Going to a headphone set-up for a while is good advice. My daughter destroyed a Linn MC cartridge, and my son destroyed the drivers on both some Spendors and a B&W sub. I claimed insurance for the cartridge, but didn't want to go back to them about the speakers in case they decided to exclude cover for the stereo. An expensive exercise, not to mention embarrassing, since he wrecked the Spendors as they were up for sale on trademe. The buyer came around to listen, thought I was dodgy, & gave me bad feedback...

Put up chicken wire, or hide the stereo for a few years I reckon!

[Colin^]

I have had 5 children and 2 grand children, never hads a problem with any of them touching my audio equiptment.

[Ross F]

I'm with maxgate on this. Happy to listen and watch plus talking to knowledgable individuals off-line. Saved me (and cost me) quite a lot over the years. But I agree, it's a bit slow on AE at the moment

[Ernie]

I think people have stopped whineing as much...