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The great emancipation??

Thanks for sharing. In the back of my mind, I've always felt that if I'm not carefull, things could get out of hand. I've found myself thinking about an upgrade of speakers, a change of amps...something, ..anything???

Each time, however I would settle down and realize that what I've got now is good enough. Mainly in agreement with your observations, that nothing will ever realy be the real thing, so why go chasing illusions?

The obvious explanation is that we could not possibly bring live music into our listening rooms on a regular basis, so we seek to duplicate this to the best of our abilites.

But as you state, it can become a self fueled, consumptive hobby that can have no real basis in practicality or comon sense. However, these are personal decisions, and left to the individual to establish when that line has been crossed. So where I would never(?) pay $1000 for an interconnect, I have paid $200 for such, and some would think it too late and that I've already gone over to the Dark Side.

A reasonable question to ask is: can I truely live with the system I have now, or must I change it to achieve satisfaction. And what specifiacally does this change entail. Does the change require new equipment, or a better understanding of how to utilize what I currently have. What real improvment will I actually hear when I make this change. Is it really real, or "suggested". Do I have an out if it turns out not to be a real improvment?

Just more reason to both listen, and buy, with our own ears, and not someone elses.

slope



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