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Change it or Defend it, where is your stereo at?

I'm sitting here listening to Chantal Chamberland.  A wonderful discovery brought to me by using the artist radio feature of Roon and starting with Carla Bruni.  I'm feeling so much enjoyment out of my stereo right now, without the need to even try to be critical. I wouldn't change a thing.  I want to keep it just the way it is forever. If someone came in and offered to make it "better" I'd probably go all John Wick on them. 

So I wonder fellow A'goners.  Where are you?  Are you ready to throw it all out for something?  Are you looking for the next upgrade, or have you gotten yourself to a point where it's so good you are afraid of changing a thing?

erik_squires

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ghdprentice
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I have reached plateaus over the last fifty years where I had everything balanced as I wanted it… and, yes I just knew if I replaced one piece and it was going to throw everything off… and it happened. I always doubled the cost of a component, so it would improve the sound… but it would throw the tonal balance off.

 

Over time as I gained experience purchases would do what I expected… many hundreds of hours or reading, listening… experimenting. Over the last twenty years, my choices did exactly what I would expect.

 

I now have the system I have worked towards. So, no changes planned (My User ID). However, I have tweaks planned… shorten my speaker cables, podiums under speakers. There are always small things that make a system better at this level.

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