If there’s an audiophile exit ramp, this ain’t it…

@redwoodaudio wrote "Of course, reading about new $50,000 speakers in Absolute Sound gives me the doubts too, since I don’t know if they’re ‘way better’ compared to mine. 

I suspect the vast majority of us have at one time or another felt like this. My approach has been to build my system on a spreadsheet with my dream components that I can reasonable obtain within my budget and focus on buying them.  While waiting for them to show up used or saving the money, I don't get distracted by other components to get me over until the right one comes along.  I'm patient and try to exercise discipline.  I don't get distracted by silly tweaks that or gizmos that can wait.  Look at my rack.  It's all outdoor patio furniture.  A rack can wait.  I just bought my end-game DAC and looked every day for that unicorn component at the right used price.  My itch was scratched and I have zero desire to look for another DAC.  So, when you get what you want, you're less likely to lust after something new.   I don't compromise.  

I bought my martin-logans almost 40 years ago and they're still fantastic.  Not perfect (need some more bass) but I haven't felt the need over all that time to change.  

So, if you're feeling the itch and you don't have your end-game system make a list , be patient, give that list to AI and ask it to do a daily sweep for what you're looking for.

While you're patiently waiting (and it may take some time), relax and enjoy what you have.

A  disgruntlement causing Graham LS5 was the exit plan? That's the pay to play press at work, no mind blowing sound there...

No exit available. Keep looking and learning a bit longer.

Audiogon and the audio press, I mean. I finally have the system I was aiming for and had imagined for my future, as conjured from the cryptic pages of stereophile etc. — incredible transparency, scale, and ‘realness’ — but whenever I’m drawn to these sites/pages, as I have been for two years, I am confronted again with doubt and a vague longing for ‘perfection’ in a new purchase. I just want to enjoy the music

Im ready for the audiophile exit ramp, and this ain’t it…

@cd318 

I think we all do.

Unfortunately we seem to be infected by a virus for which there is no known cure.

Just when and where this infection occured is not known but complete recovery is virtually unheard of.

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For years I had “Audiophilia Decease” (my made-up term) under control and owned a number of good systems that satisfied me over my 73 years. Then system break occurred last year that sent me into my current bought with the decease…

As a lot have uttered the phrase “I’m Done!!”, I thought I really was. Until I finally joined this forum last year after monitoring it for years. The wealth of audiophile information is staggering. But a lot of it also reinforces my own thoughts when it comes to system building, solving technical problems and being exposed to all of the various opinions and technical expertise shared by those in the know.

After my system crash of last year I embarked on completing a system that I started building 8 years ago. I bought the components piecemeal and stored them in my garage in preparation of completing an expansion of my music room. COVID put a halt to that. Then my system crash.  So at the end of last I began to assemble my current system (can be viewed here in Virtual Systems) and thought I was really and truly done and could just, “ Listen To The Music!!”. And then there is “YouTube”. Where a REL video caught my eye when John Hunter was demonstrating REL’s Array 6-pack System. And a new infection grabbed a hold of me…With that I’m heading to Southern California (L.A. areas) this weekend to see a REL Subwoofer Array demo by John Hunter (Mr. REL himself) because I’ve lost my mind again in wanting to build an array (6-pack) addition to an already wonderful system (for my ears). And that’s not all, after the 6 pack addition I’m already contemplating replacing my 18 year old KEF Reference 205/2’s with new Sonus Faber Olympica Nova V’s…

Yes, the decease persists…After all of this I hope to be cured!!

”Enjoy the music!!”

@jjss49 

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