If you could travel back in time, what would you tell yourself as a young audiophile?

[Lee]

Just curious what lessons you learned as an experienced audiophile that you wish you knew at a much younger age.

 

[bonzo75]

To understand which performances on tapes and records to get, load up on them, and then audition with them to select rest of the gear

 

[mtemur]

Buy more records and tubes.

 

[Carlos269]

Just curious what lessons you learned as an experienced audiophile that you wish you knew at a much younger age.

“Soon you will discover that this audiophile phenomenon is just one big swindle”

 

[andromedaaudio]

That not everything that is written in audiomagazines is actually true

 

[ptman]

Be careful when buying foreign products being newly introduced in the US. Trying to get them repaired can become a futile experience.

 

[astrotoy]

Don't sell your old records when everyone else is selling (like when the CD craze started). Larry

 

[Golum]

Son, go and buy yourself chalet in Swiss alps and house at seaside and bring as many chiquita's as you possibly can - life is short.
Don't anybody trick you to go into HiFi - it's a black hole (especially void tubes)

 

[facten]

Do more research and save up to buy better gear from the outset, not doing so cost more in the long run. Not implying that I still wouldn't have made changes along the way, I have/do, but they would have been more selective and fewer in number.

 

[Alrainbow]

Well one is vinyl a big one
nit only the rock ones
I was a dj in the golden error of disco
I had thousands of club pressings
radio releases
promo releases all vinyl
what dumb ass for just letting it go
next would be the now vintage cars
corvets , two camaros 69 and 70
gto 66
barracuda fast back
what young smuck to sell each to buy the next one

 

[dcathro]

Buy a modest system and invest the money in Crypto,Tech Stocks or Real Estate.

 

[wbass]

I'd like to have a time machine to go back and buy every good early Blue Note/Impulse/Prestige/Columbia/Strata East pressing in sight. And a mint set of Gretsch Round Badge, Camco Oaklawn, a handful of Radio King snares, and a full complement of Turkish K's.

 

[PeterA]

Don’t buy, just listen. Be very open minded. Then find the right people to learn selection and set up.

 

[Holli82]

Just curious what lessons you learned as an experienced audiophile that you wish you knew at a much younger age.

trust your OWN ears.

 

[Alrainbow]

trust your OWN ears.

And don’t tell anyone hto w you hear lol

 

[tima]

Buy Neumann, Decca, Telefunken and Microsoft.

 

[bonzo75]

Avoid MoFi

Buy Microsoft.

For your digital server?

 

[tima]

Avoid MoFi


For your digital server?

Your youth is showing. MS weren't there yet.
Avoid Manheim Steamroller.
Avoid Token-Ring.

 

[the sound of Tao]

Avoid MoFi


For your digital server?

I was writing the following as you posted…

 

[the sound of Tao]

Invent stereo (whoops too late)… and burn mofi

Get in and buy as much good music along the way and build a great library from early on and continue to build on it and treasure it as the core of your understanding. Explore gear widely to develop and refine your instincts for what connects you to listening to music the most. Don’t get sold into the endless update thing but explore and then decide your priorities and choose accordingly.

Don’t forget it all started with the passion for music and it will end full cycle back again with the passion for music.

Don’t waste money buying audio magazines… put it all into buying more music instead. Just joking Tim… but after all these years you are still one of the few reviewers that I read.

Develop your understanding of music all the way along and stay true to the source of your passion and in the start of assessing your system and again in summation let your connection to the music be your ultimate benchmark and your guide.