Simple, almost banal…

 

Friends and acquaintances often ask me how I managed to afford and purchase rare and expensive audio equipment with a perfectly normal 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 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.

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.

This leaves me with little money in my pocket every month that I can use to buy records and some concerts... last but not least, the equipments that makes up my audio system is the fruit of a passion I've pursued uninterruptedly for the last 50 years and I’m a big fan of second-hand, pre-owned gears.

That's all... I told you: it's all so simple, almost banal.

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