The other day I was wondering if I could manage to live in a smaller
space. My hi-fi, mostly in boxes, takes up rooms. My discs would take
up hundreds of feet of shelf space if shelved; I keep them edgewise 250
or so per flat box with the boxes stacked six or seven high; you can
build real muscles moving all the boxes to get at a disc in the
bottommost box. The discs take a lot of floor space and a lot of cubic
space. My books are even more space-consuming, and then there are
computers, many, many shelf feet of boxes of software, cameras, tools,
bicycles and so on, but let's keep this to music and its implements.

The solution for the discs is simple: there is no need for each disc to
be in a jewel case. The discs and their booklets can be put in big
zippered books of plastic sleeves and reduced to a couple of short
shelves or maybe a single bookcase, rather than an overbearing cubic
volume.

Surprisingly, for someone so often abused as Mr Single-Ended, actually
the equipment I would give up last is my electrostrats and the sensible
amp and source to go with them is a Quad SS amp and the Quad CD player
and the Quad preamp (good for having a mono button...) though I could
lose the pre and just make put a DACT attenuator in a small box for a
volume pot.

So, what would you give up last?

Andre Jute
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