How competitive are you with your system?

Being a Person who had many a occasion in the Company of Individuals Known, Not so Known and never met, with the Objective of being in the room to experience a audio system and then an audio system with different Sources added or other Devices attached in place of a resident device.

I have heard broad ranges of brief comments, I have heard many good quality descriptions and fair assessment where some are quite different from your own perception of what was being created as a End Sound.

I have come to learn individuals are unique when it comes to listening and the impact of a aesthetic. Some are Lower Frequency Sensitive, Some are Upper Frequency Sensitive and in general each has their own preference for the cohesiveness of the blend of the range of frequencies. Some are genuinely anticipating something special as a result of visually observing and not hearing, I have seen an item selected as potentially the star of the say, as a result of Polished Metal being the design.

What I am not seeing from individuals is Competitiveness as a common meaning - "the quality of being as good as or better than others of a comparable nature ", this does not show for the audio equipment loaned to the system in use either.

Conviviality, Jovial behaviour in conjunction with Musical Encounters and a Little Learning is key and the fundamental. 

Selections are not marked as a Judging, selections made are based on where it is unmistaken something valuable occurred and the device capable, might prove well introduced to other systems.

I have encountered Speakers that are not too difficult to transport used on system in a unique Space and been very very impressed. The same Speakers in a different Space and with a different system has not been as an impressive a End Sound.

Is the System change not creating a synergy with the Speakers, not letting them sing as they had on anther encounter?

Is the Room the Speakers are being used in not modelled in a way that allows the Speakers produced Energies to be tamed and not be contaminated with colouration from the room interfaces?

Was I as a Listener / Assessor not in the Spirits I was on a previous occasion and was not able to discover the mood that was generated on an alternate musical encounter?

I don't see Competitiveness at the area of the audio interest where produced End Sound is being an encounter.        

My system is the best system ever. We’re talking tone like you wouldn’t believe. Texture is off the charts.  Soundstage? So wide it makes your living room feel like Madison Square Garden. I’ve had audiophiles — big-time people, very serious ears — come over and they’re trembling. Tears in their eyes. One guy said it was better than his wedding day. Everyone says it.

Sounds like a genital measuring contest? Why would anyone be competitive with their system? It would be the most anti-audiophile thing ever.

I am finding this thread disturbing.

@gano “l am finding this thread disturbing”

@bjesien ”Tears in their eyes”

@rvpiano “Comparison is the thief of joy”

@immatthewj “My system is constantly competing with me”

All above good comments sum this discussion up. Some sincere, some piss taking.

There is only one logical solution for all those who obsess and need to compare. Enter your equipment/system love child into a tournament with other self-minded show offs.

Reminds me of those demented mothers who enter their dressed up offspring into those despicable all singing and dancing child pageants.

I find the notion that I am competing against anyone absurd.  I think we are all in some sense fighting against a world that fails to place value on the joy of sound reproduction