My High End Audio Gear As A Long Term Investment!!!


I’ve had enough years of fiddling around with all this expensive High End Audio gear. No more speaker musical-chairs for me or switching out my amp every few years, or chasing the latest new shine penny, etc. It’s far too costly (and a headache to boot). So a couple years ago I decided to take time and care in diligently putting together a fine audio system, within my budget, of course, that would preform at such a high level of proficiency that I could be sonically satisfied for many, many years to come. Mission accomplished!!! My audio system is soo musically satisfying to me that I could honestly live with it for the duration (but it didn’t come cheap). I know it’s hard to believe. At this juncture, and yes I’m old, I’m just flat-out tired and weary (so is my wallet) of all the hassle of buying and selling gear and (losing $$$ every time), never being satisfied with what I have even though what I have is already quite outstanding. Lets face it, it’s a fun hobby, but it can be an extremely expensive hobby, especially for an average guy like myself. So, I’m done trying to keep up with the Joneses. And now I just want to be content and happy with the wise long-term investment I made in my wonderful sounding audio system and just enjoy it without the constant burden (cloud of uncertainty) of thinking about switching out anything anymore. What a relief it is for me to finally after all these years be able to settle down in front of my audio system with the music being my only concern with a glass of fine red wine and just forget about all my troubles. It good feeling!!!  Anyone else have the same attitude toward the hobby as me?  Are you content with the decisions you made on your audio system?  Are you done with it like I am?   

kennymacc

Showing 2 responses by erik_squires

There are two kinds of investments, IMHO.  One, you plan to sell it later.  Like a stamp, and two, you buy it because not buying it means you'll spend more money in the long term.

Good cookware that lasts you a lifetime and keeps you from replacing it yearly, and yields consistently better results for less effort is definitely a type of investment. 

Homes are arguably more like cookware than stamps, since while your home is accruing value you can't actually move to a nicer home after 10 years.  You can move into another home exactly like the one you are in. 

Yes, and I find that one of the major factors that allowed me to get there was to have excellent room treatment.  That got me off all the merry-go-rounds.

Having a reasonably good sounding room has made the room much more accepting of speakers and far less concerned about up/down grading the amp or speakers to fix whatever I was having problems with.