I mean… a nice comfy seat for two and sit with your heads very close together sounds like a really cosy way to listen to music… basically… think romantically and not just technically 
Plus when just one of you sits there you won’t be swamped in a giant chair.
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2024 Goal: Don’t fry any electronics, and not have to ship anything for repairs.
Achievable? Trying not to lose hope…
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Didn’t you already fail this for the year?
Or are you planning for 2025.
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Good point. Okay, how about for the next 11 months?
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Good thing I waited with figuring these out:
- Need an integrated or pre/power amp for the O/96
- Choose speakers cables to fine-tune the 2ch system
- Figure out the room - placement of my speakers, rack (maybe get a new one) and desk location so I can use everything without separate chains. Acoustic treatment is back big time of course
and another stretch goal might be revisiting power conditioning if I end up having some extra cash for something like a Niagara 5000 that was in the plans before I bought the speakers.
I wanted a tube headphones amp but that’s off the table now, I’m done investing in headphones gear. Will have tubes in the 2ch system for sure.
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I dont know if i ever put it down here but my goal is to reach 10,000 tracks on the local library.
I am either at 8,900 or 9,500 depending on if you count podcasts. I know for some that may not be huge, and i still look through it all thinking “there is nothing to listen to.” But i am getting there.
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Finished my gear-goals, for our current home and now ordering more and more CDs 
- using my tube collection with tube rolling in my DACs & Pre’s
- sharing experience with others & more listening-togethers (hificouch.world)
- trying to document my journey on YT & discuss topics from an average hifi enthusiast
- Re-use my equipment I’ve collected over the years (not selling it)
- Collect CDs on my travels from different countries from local artists
Be happy, enjoy more free time and listen to unknown artists!
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This last Bandcamp Friday put me over 10k juuust before year’s end.
669 of those are podcasts so 10,115 total music tracks.
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- Get the living room setup to the 50% mark
- Finally upgrade the desk setup
- Turntable, maybe?
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I’ll add my 2025 HiFi goals:
*Become more active in this community and spend more time in the hobby. Been working a lot with more responsibilities at work so free time has been constrained and spending all of my “free cash” on Bitcoin during the past three years (down portion of the four year cycle). Time to relax and have a life again.
*Find my end game iems. Currently use and love the UM Mest MkII but I realize that the iem market and tech has been rapidly advancing so assume there are some out there that may dethrone the Mest MkII for me (primary goal).
*Replace my old Hiby R6 Pro DAP for something similar but up to date (use for hiking/outdoor exercising and listening to audio books, lectures, music, etc.). I have the Lotoo PAW Gold Touch for relaxing but need other capabilities in a second unit.
*Sell all but two of my guitars and other items (old DAPs and IEMs) not going with me into retirement and slow travelling/finding my forever home outside the US. Four years out but it’s amazing how fast time goes!
I am a lurker here but will work to be more active. This is such a great community 
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2025 goals for me
Get healthy so I can get a real word and keep building up my audio colection
Ill make it simple just in case:
-Tube roll my bottlehead
-Tube roll my quicksilver
-Get any 2 of these headphones:
Utopia og, atrium closed, ath AWKT, fostex th900ltd/909, Final D8000 pro
-Get me a trafomatic head 2 or woo wa22
Hope I can accomplish
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