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Keep equipement or trade?

Now that I have been browsing these forums for awhile and since I have been an audiophile for alongtime so to speak since I am only 19 (i have always loved music and played) I have noticed some trends with people and their equipment.

1. Their are some people that keep their equipment. Not just keep it they keep it forever it gets hard use and they love it. They would never trade up for anything.

2. Those people that trade up all the time for the next best and greatest model. They are always looking for new speakers and what have you.

Now which catagorey do you fit in? Or do you see yourself fitting into one of these. I myself think I fit into the group that likes what they have and keeps it for along time.

For those of you who trade up all the time why are you never satasified with what you have and area always looking for the very best or what is it that fuels the trading up or sideways or whatever?
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mitch4t
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The only thing that stops me from trading up is money, period. The only reason that I don't have better stuff is money. I'd love to have a pair of bi-amped Genesis 1 speakers, top of the line Levinson or Audio Research amps and preamps, Wadia cd player and a world class turntable and phono preamp with a killer cartridge.

I will always trade up when I can afford to. The great thing about this hobby is that today's really great sounding expensive stuff will be used equipment in a few years....it will still sound great and be more affordable, and it will still sound great.
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mitch4t
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All of you 1's are liars and are in denial.

You keep coming back to the 'Gon like addicts to a crack house to keep abreast of what's new and to get some assurance that you are still current or slightly ahead of the game. If enough killer reviews come in, you start to question your current equipment, no matter how good it sounds.....you still have an inkling that if you bought that additional piece, it just might be the one to get you to the holy grail of audio.

I dare any of you 1's to:

1. cancel your subscriptions to any audio magazines that you have for six months
2. do not visit Audiogon for six months

Admit it like the rest of us 2's, you are hooked and hopeless. Now live with it.

The first step to recovery is the same thing they do in AA,
"my name is________and I am and audio addict".
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mitch4t
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Jmcgrogan2 and the rest of you, please go to my system page at mitch4t and look at the last photo on my page.

If you follow the capton in the photo, that will prevent the selling off of audio equipment prior to marriage.

mitch
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