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Re: It's time to open our eyes and close our wallets!

I am approching the same conclusion as you. My story...

I recently bought a house. Do not have the "audio" space setup yet. Plan was to put the TV upstairs in the living room and have the "real system" in the basement with my computer and guitars. In the meantime I took the speakers that used to be on my computer (older B&W 600i bookshelfs) an old set of polk monitors for rears a Vance titanic sub and mated them to a Yamaha HT reciever that was on sale for $199, a Pioneer universal DVD player (the $170 one) and set them up in the liveing room with the TV. I find that I am enjoying music much more lately with out worrying about all the audiophile crap. So much so that I am thinking of offing the "real" system. The real system does sound better, don't get me wrong, but it just doesn't seem to matter at all anymore. Another audiophile "sin" is that I am really digging Pro Logic II on many recordings now also. I am feeling, like you, that the expense and obsession is not worth it anymore. After all no matter how much you spend it doesn't sound like live music.

My "real" system for refrence...

B&W Matrix 803sII
Pass Aleph 3
Audio Electronics AE-1 (similar to Cary SLP-98)
Audio Electronics PH-1
Meridian 506
NAD 533


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