How competitive are you with your system?

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 

Of course everyone compares their system with others that they hear. It’s just in our nature being competitive. And I’ll bet  most everyone always  thinks their  own system sounds better whether it does or not. Happy listening!