I learned a new wife to audiophile translation term today.
Wife: you need to keep this box or are you throwing it away?
Me: which box?
Wife: the box your new wires came in. This isn’t a friendship wire you have to send back?
Me: Friendship wire?
Wife: you know a wire your friend sent you that you have to ship back?
So far the vocabulary is:
Wire: pretty self explanatory and there are lots
Bulb: no explanation necessary
Box: I mean, pretty much everything else
No rush but i think I’m one of those friendship wires lol lol
Must have lost the box obviously!
It is fixed though. 
We use the term friendship box in this household allot 
Sounds like you’re past the “tell me again why you need so many empty boxes” conversation.
Apartment living will do that. Enjoy the luxuries of living in a house.
LOL! The mental image of this killed me, us sending each other “friendship wires” ! 
Friendship wires sounds adorable <3
If you’d have told me four years ago that changing the connector on an RCA cable could demonstrably change the signature of the cable, I’d have laughed in your face and judged you as gullible.
I apologize to anyone I may have judged in years past. I now openly admit I was wrong, ignorant, untrained, inexperienced, all of the above.
Post a picture somewhere of what you changed over please when you have time. Give us some details and tell us more about it. 
I’d bought a pair of Snake River Signature Mamushi here on the forum from @SaberPunch for a song. I was surprised to hear that they were a hint bright compared to the same cable but in XLR that I already had.
The WBT connectors on the cables were silver instead of copper. I sent the cables in to Jonny to have the connectors changed and he did a complete top to bottom refresh of the cables along with the connectors and I’ve had them back for a couple of days now.
It was a classic Goldilocks situation I was trying to dial in. My Gabriel Gold cables were not enough, the Snake River with the silver WBT were too much, the change of connector to standard gold plated copper is just right.
This thread is so great. I’ve never come across it before and it’s so fun finding new threads to read.
I’ve learned:
I genuinely understand why folks that have nice equipment fuss so terribly and spend so much $$$$ on every crazy contraption and method they can possibly come up w/ to clean records, store records, protect records and find good records worth the effort. 
I’m a freak for cool looking and eclectic equipment that strikes my fancy, spinning vinyl does physically put me a bit “closer” to the music requiring more patience and attentiveness throughout the session, i can already see where this slow moving disaster is heading in the future 
My audio dealer knew EXACTLY what he was doing when he gifted me a turntable for my 50th birthday.
Lesson learned, NEVER accept a birthday gift from your crack dealer, one way or another you will eventually sell blood because of it.
I remember when learning about industry design, one example was how the old Apple’s message of “You did not correctly shut me down” that comes up on rebooting causes user frustration, but it’s that emotional invoking and bond that makes one love their product (even if the user didn’t realize).
In general, the things we fuss with more, or put more effort into, we tend to treasure more. Vinyl’s definitely up there, and man there’s SO much stuff.
For me, the cleaning process is a big hurdle. It’s just a bit too much work to do really well. Someone told me he bought the Degritter b/c it’s a ROI based on just how much more time he saved. It makes sense every time I think about it…
Never judge a book by its cover.
When I was first getting into the hobby I looked up local Hifi shops and this place popped up. It looks like a pawn shop.
Pretty cool story just walking in and talking to the proprietor but I’ll jump to the end
these were in there:
I was talking to the old man that owns the place and I was being my normal indecisive self about which direction to go, separates vs integrated and if I needed room treatments and is it even worth investing in gear, blah blah and he just said “The best stereo in the world is the one you listen to the most”.
Indeed. Sounds like the Mr Miyagi of that area. 
Cool story, where was that, and what speakers were those?
Great story and experience! I have said it repeatedly, my simplest and cheapest systems get used most for daily listening, simple entertainment, when friends are over, working out, etc. Just normal stuff that plays when i hit the button and provides many more hours of entertainment than any of my fancy stuff. I do LOVE my fancy stuff though
Technicalities and chasing the dragon are fun but, You have to remember its all about enjoying the music as much as possible and theres other factors to that.
Gorgeous view!
Are those the Tetons?
