Coming out of the blackhole called work...retirement

Congrats on your retirement. I'm two years ahead of you and can tell you to simply take your time and don't rush into any major purchases and to audition as much as you can before committing. 

That, and mickeyb beat me to it: you really can't go wrong with the JBL suggestion. Take a look at youtube and check out kenrick sound and what he does with JBL speakers. You don't have to modify them like he does but it will give you a good idea of just how good those old designs still are. Happy listening.

All the best,
Nonoise

Congrats on your retirement.  In about 18 months I'll probably be joining you!

Congrats! I just retired January 2nd. So far,I’m loving life. 
Take your time and find something you like. That’s one thing you have a lot of now is time. You don’t have to spend a fortune, although it’s really hard to stick with a budget. There’s so much cool stuff out there!

Welcome to retirement life. No more schedules and “I must get this done by...”.

The main thing is to buy what you like and what you enjoy to listen to.  There is no such thing as a perfect system and it is very subjective too.

As a retirement present to myself, I bought myself a simple and non clutter system because I no longer want to have multiple components and cables running among them.  I purchased the Devialet 1000 Pro with a pair of Focal Maestro to simplify my home.  The source is a custom built cube PC by my son-in-law with two dedicated 6TB hard drives with Tidal / JRiver as digital music management.  I will later re-condition my 40-year old turntable as analogue source and same vintage NAD CD player for my CD collections.

 

retired-hank3 posts01-27-2018 4:17pmWelcome to retirement life. No more schedules and “I must get this done by...”.

Ah, not quite right. There's always the dreaded fridge list, from the missus.

Cheers George