I can still remember camping out in the woods in upstate NY by a beautiful waterfall with some high school buddies in the late 1970's and I brought my super cheapo General Electric portable cassette player, made around the year 1971, and we played some tapes of the old Genesis and I can't remember what else but I remember enjoying that music in that environment at that time as much as my tweaked out system(s) today
If you lost your stereo system would you still ???
Would you still be enthralled by the music. Enjoy and listen to it. How much difference does a fine stereo make to you. Lets say you would have a $500 to listen to. Are you too concerned about the accuracy or would you still listen because you love the nusic. I think I would still listen but would always want more. I think that whats drives us. The audio bug. A $5000 system is not good enough. A $10,000 is not good enough and so on. But what would you do if the $500 system is all you will have to live with. Will you abandon your hobby? I know I would spend less time. Mike