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Have you reached your end point with this addictive hobby?

I wonder if out there somewhere there’s a support group called Audiophile Anonymous 😂 that addresses Audiophiles constant need for perfection. For my self I would probably benefit from a couple of these group sessions. Putting humor aside there’s some truth to this hobby being addictive and at some point there has to be an end point where you are there and the need to upgrade serves no useful purpose. I can’t say I’m 100% there yet, but something inside me tells me I’m getting close to hitting rock bottom and when I do maybe I’ll see the light, or maybe not 😂!

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@prof,

Feels awfully cruel to have gone all this way landed on my final dream system, and then I can’t appreciate it.   Hopefully that situation will change at some point.

While things are ok (for now) with me, I have been following researches related to hearing improvement. While we are still a few years away from experimental treatments, news such as THIS is encouraging. My father had major hearing issue and that turned him form a full scale extrovert to an introvert and his social life at the fag end of his life was practically 0, because he was embarrassed that he could not hear others properly, even with hearing aids.

I am hoping that the treatment to REVERSE the hearing loss is available within the next 5 years. With AI now, things should expedite. Man lives on hope!

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@whart ,

 I played a couple of discs from the Art Pepper Live at the Vanguard and Shelly Manne Live at the Blackhawk and reveled in what I was hearing. 

Talking about Shelly Mane, at 2015 AXPONA Chad Kassme played "Sounds Unheard Of!" at one demo and I have been searching for this recording ever since, on CD, since I am not into LP. My guess is that you might have this LP and it sounds fantastic on your system!

Just recently I came across internet archive where this LP has been ripped to FLAC. Since it is on archive.org, I believe it is legal?

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