I reached the point in my audiophile journey that you are in right now about four years ago. At age 65 and now retired, I put my retirement system together then, and now, I'm content for the duration. I've got a great system, I'm tire of dumping money into the hobby endlessly, and I'm just tired of chasing the cat!!! Life's good. Happy listening
a rant
after 30 years of being so enamored with stereo equipment - im ok now just listening to music
im no longer chasing - whenever i have bought new equipment it never sounded as good as i think the reviewer thinks it does. maybe 5% sounded really good and the other 95% - im still waiting for them to break in.
My fantastical brain wanted every piece of equipment to sound incredible. i think the key word is "chasing".
See, now tube amplifiers are all the rage again - it was class d about 3 years ago - it was solid state about 6 months ago - whenever i have tubes - i want solid state, whenever i have solid state - then i want tubes - then ill try class d in the meantime
Im just saying - this hobby is the "space mountain" of roller coasters - ya think!