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As awesome as watches are, what else do you do to kill time?

I don't get out much as I was one of those crazy people that decided to go back to school. I'm big on water sports such as swimming, diving, fishing, crabbing, sailing, water skiing, tubing; and shooting skeet, pistols, and rifles. I'm also big on home audio and theatre, testing radar detectors, and cars. What about you?

edit: and oh yeah, playing with my rabbit

Mud riddin', trail riddin' & rock crawlin' - I'm in a Bay area Jeep club.

Besides that I enjoy exercise and construction!

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Like this? Little project that took me two winters to finish off in my bare boned basement. This is all the solid state and HT gear. I don't seem to have any of my tube amps,tube pre, turn table and crazy wall of vinyl. Yes LP records are all the rage in my mind.




I'm also into home brewing in a big way. Typically have 8 on tap randing form a British Bitter or Special Bitter to Bourbon barrel oak aged stouts and porters. Belgian styled beers with all their funk is my favorite to make.

I could watch a BB marathon in that joint!!!!

Snowboarding in the winter; golfing pretty much all the time.

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-RJ

I keep busy what with work, time with my wife, church, some computer games and a trying to keep my bonsai alive during the winter

As for other hobbies though... I have quite a Scotch collection (predominantly Islay malts having recently travelled there on a distillery trip) and a significant comic collection (mainly Marvel Omnibuses)

Most of my spare time is dedicated to my family (wife and two daughters). Otherwise e-book reading, computer, listening music (loud, fast and heavy). I also like going to the cinema, espacially open air cinema in summer.
@rplace Your home cinema is awesome!

I pretend I'm a rock god!

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Crap that is awesome! I'm still a fan of vinyl given the sound dynamics from it are so different than other mediums. What is on the rack? (my eyes aren't of the best). BTW I'm in Timonium so I'm pretty close to you.





My brother is a photographer and bonsais are one of his favorite things to photograph. They are awesome! (and ridiculously expensive and hard to care for!)

I'm big into music as well, although in my case it's portable as I spend so much time travelling. My 'perfect' portable set up is about 2 weeks away from being complete, just waiting on shipping now - DX100 > Whiplash custom digital IC > Jerry Harvey JH3a > Whiplash custom Twag / Twcu hybrid cable > Jerry Harvey JH16 Pros. That probably means nothing to anyone except maybe JacksonStone, but it's going to be a pretty darn sweet setup.

I also ride horses in the summer and race sled dogs (Alaskan Malamutes) in the winter, but right now I don't have a lot of free time because work is ridiculously busy - I've been writing articles / white papers / book chapters / etc as part of my business for a few years but have now been contracted to write my first full book which is due to the publisher in December and is taking up a huge amount of time right now.

Guys, thanks for the kind comments on the HT. nickzac agree on dynamics of vinyl, just no way to get that in compressed digital format. The equipment changes from time to time that pictue is a bit old but the main amps never change. Four 2-channel Carver TFM-25 amps. They are a bit old, but IMHO still fantastic. That gives 250W X 8; every single speaker in the 7.1 system gets its own private 250 with another 200 for the sub up front. The pre/pro is a Sunfire Theater Grand IV. The DVD player is a Dennon 3800...no blu-ray needed at this time. High end Panasonic projector from back when it was built in 2004/05 but is probably the weakest link now. As soon as the bulb goes I will need a new projector not a bulb. That will put a dent in the watch budget.

Roff, you are right about not meaning anything to me...but it sure does read well and I bet is sounds great. Very cool on the dog sled racing. I seem to remember reading about you having dog(S), but had not idea...neat!

Okay, I'm officially old and out of it. My B&O Beosystem 6000 sits in storage at home, with no present plans for re-use. The Beogram turntable also sits there. The Dahlquist DQ 10s are long gone, as were the Magnepans which preceeded them. Once upon a time though my Luxman tube receiver was a beast. Fun to see all the "new" stuff.

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Scott

AP Royal Oak 15400, silver
Zenith Chronomaster El Primero Classic Cars
Vintage gold Corum
Rolex DJ 36 TT, oyster dial, oyster/smooth
Baume & Mercier Riviera 200m, silver dial/aquamarine bezel
Breitling Superocean 57, rose/stainless

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Scott, you are not old everything old is new again. Tube amps and preamps are all the rage. My 2-channel listening system for music only has more tubes then a soviet era rocket guidance system.

LALALALA Not hearing you! This is for my own good. If I have to start looking up old MacIntosh, Luxman or Carver amps, an NAD 3020 for the phono preamp (not even tube but best audio buy probabaly in history) and something exotic with a tangential tonearm, let alone Magneplanars and subs, I may as well sell off the AP now. I'm good //repeats himself numerous times. Plus, no place to put it all. Beautiful setup you have, though.

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Scott

AP Royal Oak 15400, silver
Zenith Chronomaster El Primero Classic Cars
Vintage gold Corum
Rolex DJ 36 TT, oyster dial, oyster/smooth
Baume & Mercier Riviera 200m, silver dial/aquamarine bezel
Breitling Superocean 57, rose/stainless

Im way too lazy to look all that stuff up, but its sounds pretty crazy. How portable is all of that?

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-RJ