Am I wrong to feel satisfied???

Perhaps a 'satisfied' audio enthusiast is just like re-incarnation.

You go away and then you come back, you go away and then you come back. You keep coming back again and again until you finally get it right. Of course you can't remember any of the previous incarnations.

I'm not sure which iteration of re-incarnation you may be on. Shoot for all I know in a previous iteration you had Cleopatra's ears and in this iteration you have a cockroaches'. Or was it the other way around? :)

-IMO

Jmcgrogan2, I kinda’ bit my lip when I first came across your thread and I refrained from saying what really came to my mind. However, it still troubles me when I see the thread pop up so I’m going to be a little more forthcoming in my response here.

You asked, “Am I wrong to feel satisfied?”

I don’t want to offend but surely you are aware that the so-called experts in this industry and a slew of enthusiasts will attest over and over again that we are lucky if the very best of our playback systems can capture 5 or at most 15% of the magic of a live performance. Not only does anyone seem to bat an eye whenever this declaration is made, but it seems to be universally agreed upon and propagated. Never does anybody seem to consider what may be holding our systems back or even question this industry-imposed glass ceiling.

Nevertheless, with those kind of low performance levels (15% at the very most), even if your system were at 15%, it must be deemed a lo-fi system at best simply because achieving only 15% out of 100% performance in any industry must be considered weak and insufficient.

So I’ll ask with that perspective in mind, have you truly become satisfied with owning a lo-fi system? Or have you, like so many others who have given up perhaps out of frustration, trained yourself to become content and/or satisfied with such a low standard?

-IMO