Hi,
I'm French but live in Italy. I'm in my 40s, always been around HiFi due to my father's obsession with it. Being an electronician by trade, he loved buying broken gear and repairing it, as well as hoarding all the tubes he could find. I never could understand that desire to keep buying with the intention of repairing but never finding the time to do it. This did nonetheless have a lasting influence.
I use a couple of Hiraga Class A Amps along with a Yamaha CA 800 II. One built by my father(8W), the other one built by me (20W). I have 3 pairs of Supravox speakers: 2 TQWT that I built and a Jensen (bought from another DIYer in Italy). I stream my music through a couple of RPI feeding a Cyan2 and a Protodac. I have some knowledge in electronics to be able to follow a schema and solder pretty well but nowhere near being able to understand the fundamentals behind design choices.
I'm French but live in Italy. I'm in my 40s, always been around HiFi due to my father's obsession with it. Being an electronician by trade, he loved buying broken gear and repairing it, as well as hoarding all the tubes he could find. I never could understand that desire to keep buying with the intention of repairing but never finding the time to do it. This did nonetheless have a lasting influence.
I use a couple of Hiraga Class A Amps along with a Yamaha CA 800 II. One built by my father(8W), the other one built by me (20W). I have 3 pairs of Supravox speakers: 2 TQWT that I built and a Jensen (bought from another DIYer in Italy). I stream my music through a couple of RPI feeding a Cyan2 and a Protodac. I have some knowledge in electronics to be able to follow a schema and solder pretty well but nowhere near being able to understand the fundamentals behind design choices.
Welcome! Many in technical hobbies have the symptoms of hoarding. It will not be a positive affair after all and in general stuff stacks up to a level that no project will be finished anymore. Unfortunately I have seen some sad examples and decided I did not want the same. At the last clearout I did not bother much to look at the stuff and just brought most of it to recycling.
So repress that feelings (if you have them) and just obtain what you need. Sell excess stuff. It gives the chance to buy the best available.
So repress that feelings (if you have them) and just obtain what you need. Sell excess stuff. It gives the chance to buy the best available.
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The day my father passes away, if my mother was to have a sale....there would be some real gems in there
The real irony is that on a daily bases, he uses an arylic A50. As we say in France and probably elsewhere, the shoemaker always wears the worst shoes.
The real irony is that on a daily bases, he uses an arylic A50. As we say in France and probably elsewhere, the shoemaker always wears the worst shoes.
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The last clearout was in fact when my father passed and the gems turned out to be a burden to my mother. I only took a few things because of memories but discarded most. One simply does not have the time to worry about every single detail of parts and stuff. Parts of decades ago that no person except other hoarders see the value of.
A nice middle way is to have only a few devices repaired/completed and tested with some spareparts all documented and kept together. That also works for laymen/family members.
A nice middle way is to have only a few devices repaired/completed and tested with some spareparts all documented and kept together. That also works for laymen/family members.
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