What did we regret in our audio life.

[Sal1950]

When I ripped all my CD's and LP's to a hard-drive I never took the time to enter in all the meta data telling me the what versions, etc; I had. Tons of excellent info now lost forever.
Not having 20/20 hindsight and seeing the value of many of the LP's I sold for peanuts.
Can't repeat a lot here

 

[Harmonie]

When I ripped all my CD's and LP's to a hard-drive I never took the time to enter in all the meta data telling me the what versions, etc; I had. Tons of excellent info now lost forever.
Not having 20/20 hindsight and seeing the value of many of the LP's I sold for peanuts.
Can't repeat a lot here

you can post edit those datas'
I'll check this w-e and give you link for a software

 

[Sal1950]

you can post edit those datas'
I'll check this w-e and give you link for a software

Awesome, thanks a ton!

 

[Daverz]

you can post edit those datas'
I'll check this w-e and give you link for a software

Who wouldn't want that software!

I did try, for example, Picard (which is the GUI for MusicBrainz), but it had, at best, metatada for maybe 1/4 of my mostly classical collection.

 

[watchnerd]

I regret all the Schiit I bought.

 

[soundwave76]

Not buying large enough Genelecs in the first place. The upgrade path from model to model upwards was expensive and unnecessary

 

[watchnerd]

I found a Schiit Freya buried at the bottom of my 'box of cables' in the garage.

I forgot I even had that defective scrap.

 

[scrubb]

Maybe I regret the hearing loss and permanent tinnitus. The ringing gets annoying sometimes and interferes with my enjoyment of quiet listening. On the other hand, playing my guitar at “11” in a punk band in my early 20’s, mixing sound (too loudly) for some great bands, and seeing some amazing shows was totally worth it. I see my tinnitus as a reminder of how much fun it all was.

 

[Phorize]

When I ripped all my CD's and LP's to a hard-drive I never took the time to enter in all the meta data telling me the what versions, etc; I had.

There may be a way from that Sal, at least of some of your library:

https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/plugins/chroma.html

 

[chips666]

Being busy with my hifi set i s o listening to music...

 

[Harmonie]

Being busy with my hifi set i s o listening to music...

This is very common to all the intensive posters here (consider me on the top of that list)

 

[Martin]

Not attending a Led Zeppelin concert in the summer of 1977. I told my friends I’d catch the next tour.

Investing so much time, energy and money into audiophile tomfoolery.

Martin

 

[bt3]

1. The years of youth/young adulthood listening to records at high volume.
2. Selling an autographed Duke Ellington record.
3. Selling a card signed by Charles Mingus.

 

[Phorize]

2. Selling an autographed Duke Ellington record.

Autographed by who?

 

[Itsfred]

Back in the 70’s I had a Marantz 7C pre, 10B tuner, and two 9 monoblocks, driving a double pair of KLH 9’s previously owned by Tom Holman. And then my car died.

 

[fitero]

I bought a Kenwood KD-600 turntable (new), and fitted it with an SME Series III tonearm, then promptly broke it by plugging it into 220V when it was set for 110V. That cost a few bucks to fix. Oh, we aren't done here yet.
Not long after when I was bored with it, I traded it for a Nakamichi BX-300 deck that a buddy of mine had. I wish that I had hung on to that turntable.

 

[threni]

Grado SR80 headphones. Audibly bright and brash, no bass to speak ok, uncomfortable AF. When they eventually broke I bought a pair of Sennheisers (HD 595, which I still have and use) and the difference in comfort is just hilarious. The Sennheisers are designed for the human ear, enveloping it pleasantly. The Grado... I dunno what to say; they sort of sit on the ear. You could probably force them into the gap for your ear within a normal pair of headphones. Making the headphone material out of close relative of sandpaper was a questionable decision too.

 

[watchnerd]

Grado SR80 headphones. Audibly bright and brash, uncomfortable AF. When they eventually broke I bought a pair of Sennheisers (HD 595, which I still have and use) and the difference in comfort is just hilarious. The Sennheisers are designed for the human ear, enveloping it pleasantly. The Grado... I dunno what to say; they sort of sit on the ear. You could probably force them into the gap for your ear within a normal pair of headphones. Making the headphone material out of close relative of sandpaper was a questionable decision too.

Same exact experience.

Broke mine, replaced with Sennheisers.

The Grado SR80 headphones were the only headphones that ever cut my ears and made me bleed.

 

[Dialectic]

Never understood the Grado thing. Heard 'em in a store in the late '90s after having read that they were the "best". Shortly later I got a pair of HD600s, which I am still using (they are on their third pair of earpads and second cable).

 

[Pluto]

What did we regret in our audio life?

About 2007, not buying a brand new Nagra T,

…still in its delivery packaging, from a professional post house who had ordered and paid for it before realising that such analogue kit had no future within that business. They wanted £300 for it. I had just moved at the time, and cash flow was a bit of an issue…