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Where are you at on the curve?...

I feel I started my journey or "quest" for audio satisfaction around 1990. Although I was "interested" in quality sound reproduction since the mid 70's. It's been over 10 years now, and I have learned so much, and soundwise have met or exceeded my desires and expectations.
My journey started when I could not understand why, when I played a CD, it sounded great, but would essentially "chase me out of the room". I could not fathom why I could not enjoy the CD for more than a few minutes, but with a record
I would want to sit, or stay and listen. A lot of the progress I made was pure luck, other things came from constant research, reading, listening and asking questions.
Before AudiogoN I would actually call some of the people selling equipment in Stereophile before they charged for classified's and ask them questions. Most any audiophile would want to tell me everything they knew, and that was a big help, as where can you go for education in this field?
Circuit City, Magnolia Hifi? Not. I did not know a single person in which to confide in my need for the things of which I read about in Stereophile. I am not asking what equipment one might have that has brought musical enjoyment or satisfaction. One can browse around here and get an idea of musically satisfying components. I feel on the "contentment" or "musical satisfaction" curve, I have reached somewhere in the pinnacle of the curve. Not to say that I will ever reach the pinnacle. Nor have I reached a "plataeu". I would love to get and try more things I can not afford. But, I have never been at this level of satisfaction before. I love this stuff, and will always be interested in it. Learning-wise, I will always be on the lower end of the climb, as I feel I am of average intelligence, and have much more to learn. So, how about you? Where are you at in your quest for "satisfaction"?
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I think that I'm probably 98% "there". But it's apparently that last 2% that separates audiophile aspirations from the attainments of people, such as myself, with more limited resources and/or competing concerns and priorities. I can hear what I'm missing in audio by visiting a few close friends.

I'm glad and lucky that I'm alive (after struggling with brain cancer for over a decade) and that I have a loving and very supportive wife and great friends. After some recent equipment purchases, the music at home is amply involving so that, even though I spend time at Audiogon and other audio sites, I am not preoccupied with upgrade concerns (though I have useful references and resources for when and if I'm able to make a move in that direction).
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