After fifty years… amazing. What high end audio can be.

I concur. I have been in the game at a certain level since the early 70s, certainly not in the elite echelon but quality hifi hardware. Just last night I sat down after dinner and listened to 3.5 albums consecutively* and marveled over and over at what a modern system can deliver compared to my previous mostly more middling quality vintage hardware (with the exception of the streamer), which I purged piece by piece over the course of the past two years and replaced with up to date speakers, DAC/amp and powered subs with the attendant room correction software.

Listening to music is a much, much more rewarding experience today than it had been in the previous decades.

You could say, "they don't make 'em like they used to", and you would be correct ....and that's a good thing.

*
Claudia Campagnol "Right Now"
Simon Phillips "Protocol II"
Brian Culbertson "TrilogyPart 1: Red"
Fourplay "Snowbound"

My Audio gear plays a Big Part in my Retirement Time. Still Rocking at 72, since the 60's.

This is the BEST Hobby in Retirement. Spending my Pension $ on what I want. Not scrounging my Nickles to buy Audio Gear and Albums in the 1960's.

@griptube 

+1 👍😁🎉

With age comes wisdom........Why are many of us "older" music lovers moving from SS to putting Tubes in our Hi Fi rigs.... Heck, I even have a tube in my Audio Mirror DAC......The music my friends...it's All about the Music........