How competitive are you with your system?

Always room to improve

no pun intended @asvjerry 

Sounds like a genital measuring contest? Why would anyone be competitive with their system? It would be the most anti-audiophile thing ever.

I am finding this thread disturbing.

I’ll posit competitveness drives all of us at some point along the road

I disagree. I have never for a second wanted something audio related to have what others had, to have more, better than what X had. Never played a role. It would be insane if that drove me as it has zero to do with good sound quality - which is why we are in this hobby. .

my motivation to work on the system and improve it is to have it deliver the musical experience

for years i was in an improvement mind set, driven by what might be possible, not what others are doing

yes, fully agree. And this is from the member here who invested 100 times (probably more zeros) more time, money and energy into building a "winning" system than me for example

My system was down all day and I asked "what’s wrong?"

"I am the worst,  even a soundbar can beat me" it said. "I wish we were more competitive"