I completed a big upgrade back in April of this year and I'm at a plateau on which I am quite pleased. Everything is broken in and the music listening is sublime. As ghdprentice said; I'm good for at least the next seven years or so.
Does it ever end?
I have recently been on yet another search for more magic for my system. ( current components; Leben CS 600, Electrocompanient ECM MK II Dac Steamer, Feikert Volare TT with Soundsmith Zephyr, Leben phono stage and countless NOS tubes). As I sit here and listen, and incidentally burn dinner, it sounds lovely. Yet the itch is always there to try another tube , cable , a new network switch, a LAN filter etc. I recently calculated that I have more tube years than years to live. ( I won't share the numbers as they embarrass even me ). And, I wonder, when will the itch stop; as again it sounds quite nice as it exists currently. Oh well, back to burning dinner.
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I thought it would end when I couldn't find a single bothersome thing and/or achieved the sound quality I'd always dreamed of. This has proven wrong as in recent years adding variety to the listening experience via adding to the collection, now have three amps, two pre's, soon enough another one in plans, two dacs, two phono stages, two turntables to choose from. Not reaching for better just variety. |
+1, @mapman Why hold back? You only live once. The key is balance—buy what excites you, then off load pieces that you no longer need. Don’t hoard. This approach has worked well for me and has let me enjoy the hobby to the fullest. |
I dont think throwing more money nessasarily leads to better sound. This is one of the biggest fallacies in the audio hobby. "If it cost more it must be better" is simply not true. Getting an understanding of what actually makes your system sound better would be better time spent than searching for the next expensive upgrade. In fact, many times the more expensive product can lead to disappointment. Expensive cables are just one example. A speaker cable can't ADD anything to the sound. Not possible. It can only detract. Once understood that resistance, capacitance, inductance are the important factors then an intelligent decission can be made to fit the requirement. This has nothing to do with spending more money on some exotic cable made from space age unobtainium. However, there is an entire industry built on these beliefs that expensive gear sounds better.
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