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There are two things you need to know

1)the last 3-5% in audio quality is NOT the most expensive part of this hobby, it's the most elusive and often only exists in the imagination of the hobbyist.
2)when you are so obsessed with ugrades and a/b comparisons that you can't listen to music anymore when you WANT to listen to music and not do a/b comparisons, you my friend have a case of audiophile nervosa.

Here is the cure.

For one month, listen to nothing but Ipods, car stereos, low-buck DVD players, mid-fi receivers and every other form of mass-consumer electronic crap. Do NOT listen to your rig in this time period. Then, change the lighting in your audio room to be more relaxing - use warm color temperature low wattage lamps to create wall wash effects. Vacuum your audio room, tidy it up. Then get some really expensive cheese and your favorite wine. Drink one glass of wine before turning your system on. Then drink more wine and eat some very expensive cheese. You will be overwhelmed with how good music sounds on your system. You will realize that nothing really needs to be tweaked or changed. You will realize that the need for constant change and tweakery was just an idea that became an obsession.

If you still can't stop obsessing about whether or not another wrap of ERS paper on your cable elevators will make a difference and whether or not you can hear said difference, put your system away again.

Audiophile behaviour is learned behaviour. It can be fixed - the deprogramming is difficult but not impossible.

Cheers,
Presto


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