Friends and acquaintances often ask me how I managed to afford and purchase rare and expensive audio equipment with a perfectly normal (i.e. - mid-low) income as an employee, now happily retired... the answer is simple, almost banal: I have no children (something natural for me, given that at the age of six, I actively and genuinely helped my mother raise two newborn twin brothers while my friends played, so technically I was a little dad already at a very young age) so I avoid huge joys - my fault - and HUGE disappointments… and H U G E expenses.
Furthermore, I don’t smoke or have booze-habits and I drive a twenty-year-old Mercedes-Benz that, listen up, still consumes 3.9-4.1 liters of fuel per hundred kilometers... I have no pretensions of highway machismo, so I drive carefully and prudently at my pace.
For example, my brother changed 9 (nine) cars in the last 20 years, so you get an idea of what’s about!
Look at the partial odometer: 1,001.9 km with a fuel full tank… and I didn’t reach the car's fuel reserve, yet.
… and reserve reached!
This leaves me with (some) little money in my pocket every month that I can use to buy records and attending to some concerts without significantly impacting the family budget... last but not least, the equipments that makes up my audio system are the fruit of a passion I've pursued uninterruptedly for the last 55+ years and… yes! I’m a big fan of second-hand, pre-owned gears and DIY.
That's all... I told you: it's all so simple, almost banal.
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