If there’s an audiophile exit ramp, this ain’t it…


Audiogon and the audio press, I mean. I finally have the system I was aiming for and had imagined for my future, as conjured from the cryptic pages of stereophile etc. — incredible transparency, scale, and ‘realness’ — but whenever I’m drawn to these sites/pages, as I have been for two years, I am confronted again with doubt and a vague longing for ‘perfection’ in a new purchase. I just want to enjoy the music.

Im ready for the audiophile exit ramp, and this ain’t it…
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I've let audiophilia consume so much of my brainspace, I'm nervous to see how often I reach for audio stuff as a reflex. I'm anticipating some withdrawal effects.
...can I interest you in some 'vintage heroin'....?  *L*  Sometimes a cure can do more drain bamage.... ;)

Actually, it can be painless to ignore the siren song of 'better this over the junque you have'...being facetious about that, but that used to be the greener grass over the fence of doubt and envy.

There will always be a something that is (or purports to be) so much more significant in some fashion....employing the 'vehicle analogy', a Smart Car will get you somewhere just as surely as a Lotus Evija can...

Those who can and feel they must will opt for the latter...and will have the fund$ to support their auto mistress....*S*

Knew a young man who bought a used Alfa Spyder.....a start of the classic 'love/despise' relationship....always chasing mechanical demons between lost weekends chasing curves, both asphalt and the femmes'.

Audio equipment has similar traits. Mho, one can OCD self into fits over it, chasing the dragon.

Or....one can just chill, and employ it just as it is for the time being.

The 'new' will always be out there....and 'used' isn't a dirty word, either.

Enjoy.  Stop fretting (unless you take up guitar or something else with strings attached). ;)
Oh, soldering and the means of doing so...

Don't buy a Home Despot cheapie (or not so much), Parts Express has decent ones that have a handy stand for a hot iron.

Chasing one that's threatening to roll off the desk can cure that impulse if you snag the wrong end.... ;)