kevzep
Its all about the Music
I couldn't put my gear away, I like music too much, I have to listen to music, I have to play (as in guitar) music......
There's music on in our house most of the time......
If I did put my gear away I would end up listening to music anyway on something else, and have done this before in fact.....
When I got divorced 7 years ago, and was staying at a friends place for 18 months (in a very small room), I had no system, I was listening on whatever I could, USB Logitech speakers, headphones, my girlfriends crappy circa 2001 all in one stereo etc etc.....I was playing my guitar acoustically (I play electric)......all my gear was in storage.
The point is, my interest in this hobby is the music, however part of it is also the gear, don't get wrong. However I still got enjoyment from the music despite what I listened to it on......
You can imagine how satisfying it was to get all my gear out of storage and into my new house.......it was audio nirvana!!
But, reading this thread reminded me of my time I had no real gear to listen to.
Hard to imagine listening to my music on USB speakers and plastic stereos, but its just a refection of how powerful my passion for music is........if I lost all my gear for whatever reason, it wouldn't stop me listening to music at all...
However, I find there is so much great gear around these days, and so much information that it is so easy to assemble an awesome sounding system, or at least this is what I have found.
I would say given the gear the OP has, if you aren't getting any pleasure out of your gear/music then you have to identify what it is.
If you think its the gear which is fatiguing and irritating to listen to, then just try to consider for a second that maybe its actually the music. You could be tired and bored with the music you are listening to?
If you are a gear listener, then you are possibly not allowing how you feel at the time dictate what music you listen to, instead you are choosing music based on what "listening pleasure" it should give you, I think that is a strange way to enjoy music, but that's just me, perhaps its different for other people, I don't know...
I choose music based "what I feel like listening to" or "what sort of mood I am in"......Music is emotion based, and I feel forcing certain music on yourself when you are not in touch with your emotions and what sort of musical mood your in, is a recipe for disaster.....
Its like when I am listening to my friends radio station, at some point a song will come on which will irritate me, so I turn it off and put my own music on, others may just listen through it....
I don't know if this make any sense or not, but it's my perspective on it........
So, maybe put the gear away and see what happens, if you eventually find yourself turning the radio up in the car, and listening to music on the headphones, iPods, cheap systems in the kitchen while you are cooking dinner, getting the urge for a musical experience rather than a system experience, then its time to get it back out again....
If not, then maybe you don't like music as much as you thought you did, and perhaps you need smaller doses than other people.....
My 2cents......
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