HOW DID YOU END UP WITH YOUR DREAM SYSTEM?


I want to know for those who have arrived got their best system together. What is the story behind how you ended up with your gear and will you be happy for a long time with it.

calvinj
  • @mksun one thing I have learned is my music brings me joy. Also you can achieve your dream sound . Yes I gave an expensive system. My speakers are 14k my dac is 35k. My amp 20k streamer 5k subs (2) 4k each. 10k cabling. Around 90k. But you still can get a very pleasing sound being smart and knowledgeable. 
  • @mksun one thing I have learned is my music brings me joy. Also you can achieve your dream sound . Yes I gave an expensive system. My speakers are 14k my dac is 35k. My amp 20k streamer 5k subs (2) 4k each. 10k cabling. Around 90k. But you still can get a very pleasing sound being smart and knowledgeable. 

As I mentioned near the close of the last record
This record you are now playing
Is another example of the Completion Backward Principle
If you can possibly manage the time
Please play both sides at one meeting 

Some already know my stance in this reverie, but some expansion of my local focal locus in this universe....whichever one it may be....🤷‍♂️ *laugh*

Long ago, I dispersed a rather nice collection of bits so's not to drag them about, doomed to dust in storage for an unknown span.  Kept a couple of items that I knew then they'd been and would remain the 'odd but very useful' items that would be difficult if not improbable to replace...

Upon reaching a landing more 'permanent', time spent settling the dust and an income stream, it was obvious that to return to that audiostrata would require +/- 2X$ to do so......which has repeated itself in the interim a few times, enough to make SOTA  SOOR: " Sota' Out Of Reach."

One could consider that a kick in the cojones' , but in stead took on the not-so-lost-'lean can be mean' scheme....likely for less than the lucky few will spend for a cable....yeah, one.

In same recent return to the flay, I recalled a fascinating stumble into a pair of new Ohm F's very long ago...about the same time I ran into the fledgling ESS brand prior to the Heils' which happened not long after....own 4 of the large drivers...

I make my own walsh drivers these days...spend too much time enjoying than I ought, but whattya say at the end of the day.... ;)

Enjoy where you are until you don't....

Watch for those post- holidaze ads...and have a wonderful Christmas. *5's * 

 

Couldn’t agree more that listening to music should bring you joy.  Nothing better than ending the day listening to music you love.  Having a system you love is living the dream.  As Hans always says, enjoy the music.  Merry Christmas, happy holidays and a happy New Year to all!  

@calvinj I fully agree with you, music is one thing that has consistently brought me joy and has often gotten me through some rough patches in life.  I also feel that I have achieved my "dream" sound within the confines of my modest listening space.  My "dream" system would be some financially unattainable system housed in a dedicated listening room that I will never have. Its ok to dream, but I have finally achieved the sonic contentment I have been chasing all my life. My system may have costed a fraction of yours, but it would still be considered an obscene amount of money to spend on music reproduction to my friends and relatives.  Its a strange and unique club us audiophiles belong to and I'm glad to be a member.