I expect that there is a considerable psychological bias to liking the "new" thing more than the old. Just by entertaining the idea of trying the new thing probably leaves us with a predisposition towards the new one. How do we know that we want to try the new thing? Someone, somewhere, said something or wrote something about it, or about its predecessor, or about something similar. Or it looks cool. Otherwise, there is no way that the thought would enter our heads.
I think Macrojack is right. A lot of us are twiddling and tweaking and changing because it is interesting to do so. I have read many posts out there where the writer has seen evolutionary changes through a half dozen components (the same role; e.g. CDP) and while I have listened to many more than that, and there are incremental differences between a lot of CDPs, there is more to do with system synergy and that day's predisposition than there really is with the components I bet. Since I bought my first high-end system, very few times have I found something with which I could not live happily.
Personally, I wait for great things from the past to come around at a stupidly cheap price, then pounce. Because if it turns out to be all hype, someone else is probably out there doing the same thing and I won't lose much on the turn...
I think Macrojack is right. A lot of us are twiddling and tweaking and changing because it is interesting to do so. I have read many posts out there where the writer has seen evolutionary changes through a half dozen components (the same role; e.g. CDP) and while I have listened to many more than that, and there are incremental differences between a lot of CDPs, there is more to do with system synergy and that day's predisposition than there really is with the components I bet. Since I bought my first high-end system, very few times have I found something with which I could not live happily.
Personally, I wait for great things from the past to come around at a stupidly cheap price, then pounce. Because if it turns out to be all hype, someone else is probably out there doing the same thing and I won't lose much on the turn...