or: Unpacking is officially over

With a massive amount of self control, my speaker stayed in its traveling box until yesterday. 

Yesterday marked the end of some very dusty renovations that began pre-lockdown, was on hold for a great deal of it and now we’re at the tidying up bits and pieces, moving furniture around stage.

It’s also the unboxing the speaker stage.

Everything is now unboxed and freed from the cardboard holding pens.

It’s no secret that I like music. Unless you’re really unobservant, or not a regular reader of this blog, you may have noticed that all my blog titles, except for the first few, are song titles. 

Sometimes I’m listening to the song as I write. Sometimes I find the title afterwards and then end up listening to the song anyway.

And now I can do it on this speaker.

I bought it in Japan and had it on the tripod there as any marks left on the wall incurs a massive penalty. Very massive. I’m not meaning just withholding the bond. It’s that plus more.

When I moved back to HK, I mounted the speaker above my bed as it lined up well with my lounge area too. It’s a studio so almost anywhere is likely to have had the same result.

The sound quality is fantastic and I enjoyed lying in bed on a Sunday listening to a few tunes before starting my day properly. Sometimes I’d make myself a coffee and go back to bed and listen there too.

Now though, it’s been a while.

It will go on a wall here too, though not just yet. It’s furniture placement experimenting time now. It makes sense to wait until the couch has its forever (for now, because forever is a long time and for sure it will move at some stage around the house again) home and then put the speaker on the wall as it’s a pain in the backside to move.

In the meantime, it’s back to resting on its three legs.

It’s hooked up to wifi and I’m controlling it from around the house by my phone or iPad depending on what I have out.

I enjoy the sounds so much that when I sit down to read a book and play some music, I forget about reading the book and just listen.

Ahhh bliss.

It really is the simple things.

 

Thanks to Barry White for the title to this post.