For myself, I'm comfortable in knowing I have arrived. At my own personal audio joy through years of empirical data and some engineering knowledge and application. I just wonder how many like minded individuals find as much joy in finding the best recordings vs the perceived next best gear. Peace.
The key is to get the music you like to sound as good as it can. If you take your system too far in one direction, you'll end up with 3 CDs that sound extremely good and everything else will sound terrible.
Big deal to me. Fortunate to have an acoustically treated dedicated listening room. Figured out the setup. Now it's all about the recording quality. I grade every album I hear A,B,C,D based solely on sound quality.
In my collection I'm hearing about 10% class A, 50% class B, 30% class C, and 10% class D.
On my system the difference is absolutely staggering. Not too many recordings sound horrible, but man the really great recordings are just mind boggling. I will be finishing a room for listening in the near future. Very anxious to see what proper setup and treatments can do for those less than stellar recordings.
Most gear is pretty good, and things do not improve as one traverses through the audio chain.
If the recording is not too stellar then it is immediately pretty disappointing, but when the recording is good… then as long as the system is staying out of the way, it remains pretty damned good… IME.
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