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How does one get off the merry-go-round?

I'm interested in hearing from or about music lovers who have dropped out of the audio "hobby." I don't mean you were content with your system for 6 weeks. I mean, you stood pat for a long time, or--even better--you downsized...maybe got rid of your separates and got an integrated.

(I suppose if you did this, you probably aren't reading these forums any more.)

If this sounds like a cry for help, well, I dunno. Not really. I'm just curious. My thoughts have been running to things like integrated amps and small equipment racks and whatnot even as I continue to experiment and upgrade with vigor (I'm taking the room correction plunge, for example.) Just want to hear what people have to say on the subject.

---dan
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If they still visit Audiogon and read your thread, they are still on the merry-go-round. Those that have gotten off the merry-go-round no longer come to this forum. Asking that question on this forum is like going to a crack house for advice on how to break your crack habit.
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…..but if we insist on chasing the Dragon…. Ferreting out the 10%, 5%, 3% or just plain different increases in performance and damn the exponentially escalating subsidies required to do so, or as well incessantly regale ourselves with dreams and schemes on all the what ifs surrounding this undertaking, we can find ourselves ever in pursuit of that which we always had to begin with….

Thanks Blindjim. I could have used those words of wisdom ten years ago.
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Someone said on this forum several years ago "we're all as crazy as we can afford to be".

There is no way off once you've gotten on. So, you'll stay on the merry-go-round for as long as you have money, or until you pass on to the great high-end audio salon in the sky.
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