Own multiple systems. Not every recording sounds good on every system, right?. So put together as many systems as necessary to enable you to enjoy *all* of your recordings.
This also helps solve the problem of what to do with leftover gear when you upgrade your main system.
For those days when you need the illusion of simplicity, hide your system behind sonically transparent screens or -- as a last resort -- add an in-wall system to your collection of hi-fi's.
Eventually, we will all wind up sitting in front huge horn speakers from the 1950's listening through H. H. Scott receivers to 78's played on turntables with three-pound tonearms painted brown. But until then, it is our *obligation* as audiophiles to have owned (and kept!) as many different combinations of equipment as possible.
Now enough talk about "getting off the Merry-Go-Round" and return to the "For Sale" section.
This also helps solve the problem of what to do with leftover gear when you upgrade your main system.
For those days when you need the illusion of simplicity, hide your system behind sonically transparent screens or -- as a last resort -- add an in-wall system to your collection of hi-fi's.
Eventually, we will all wind up sitting in front huge horn speakers from the 1950's listening through H. H. Scott receivers to 78's played on turntables with three-pound tonearms painted brown. But until then, it is our *obligation* as audiophiles to have owned (and kept!) as many different combinations of equipment as possible.
Now enough talk about "getting off the Merry-Go-Round" and return to the "For Sale" section.