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Are You Satisfied?

Consider this a poll. How many of you are actually happy with their existing system and have no plans on upgrading? This thread seems to go "against the grain" of most of the threads regarding upgrading, future upgrades, plans to upgrade, another upgrade, etc.

Are there any of you out there who have actually stopped the upgrading and now just spend their time listening? Not that I feel that upgrading isn't a fun part of the hobby. But, I think it's more a question of, have you finally reached a point where you see no reason to upgrade.

I recently upgraded my complete 2 channel system. This is the first time I have upgraded since about 1985. It took about six months of reading, evaluating and ultimately listening, to approximately a dozen seperate pieces of equipment before making my final purchase.

I could not be any happier. Based on my past performance, I will probably own this equipment for another 15 or so years.

Are there others of you out there that are satisfied enough with you system that you see no reason to upgrade or am I to be considered the "black sheep" or not the "norm"?
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paulwp
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If you have tubes in your system, can you ever be satisfied? First off, they start wearing out immediately and you always have to worry about when do they need replacing. Secondly, there are so many different flavors of NOS tubes, you can never be sure that you have the right ones. I'd be completely satisfied with my main system if I weren't using a tube preamp. I need to keep it there because it has a headphone jack, but maybe I'd be better off with a solid state and a separate headphone amp.

Other than that, though, speakers, amp and cdp are staying there until they stop working.
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