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

Congratulations!

Informed audiophiles see the tunnel ends and listen music ...

the other case as mijostyn are simply uinformed and obsessed or very rich or the two cases wrapped in one ...

Musicians and acousticians dont obsess about the price tag and work for the best with what they owned ...Music is the goal not the gear chart comparison ...

Acoustic rules over marketing and the user manual of an upgrade ...

I am like you ...Happy with what i create : sonic musical heaven at relatively low price ...

My “investment’ has finally paid off. I’m at the state where I am really, really happy with the sound of my system. Just made some adjustments that hopefully finished my quest. Mijoystn says you’re not a true audiophile if you say your finished.
I agree, and devoutly hope my audiophile days are over.
No more agonizing over the imperfections, real or imagined, in my rig.

I just seen the system of a "true" audiophile in the virtual page system potentially better and way more costly than mine but not necessarily actually better than mine on all acoustic BALANCED count at the end  ... I will not give name ...

For sure he investigate electronics design of the speakers but his speakers are on the floor directly with no care about vibrations/resonance , and there is no acoustic treatment and control in the room at all, probably not adressing the electrical noise/signal level of the house room nor EMI shielding and certainly no tweaks as Schuman resonator etc ... ...

I dont doubt that he is a "true" audiophile who is never "satisfied" ... I am myself always satisfied with a low cost system always well embedded but i was never an "audiophile" i guess ... Only someone learning how to embed any system to listen music with no apparent acoustic defects because i understand , using what i have, how to pass optimally the minimal acoustic satisfaction threshold identified by human ears ...I listen music now ...

Absolutely not. A true audiophile is never satisfied as perfection only exists in the mind. Besides, somebody has to support these poor bastards.

Identifying the health source in the body only is the same error than identifying the sound source qualities coming only from the gear or only from the medium ...It will be too long here to correct this deep epistemological and metaphysical error ...

The process of being alive is anything but healthy, it is a fatal disease. So, get stoned and enjoy the music. You’ll feel better being alive.

I dont know if i can call my wife a " pleasurable" investment ... No more than i doubt if i can call "music" experience a pleasurable investment ...

They are for sure by some aspects ... But as any half truth it is not even wrong , it is worse than wrong ...

Something i choose which choose me too changed my life , be it Bach or my wife , i will not call that a " pleasure" , it is way more than that at the least it is a joy and joy is eternal , pleasures are not ... You buy pleasures not love nor understanding 😁😊

Someone can say that we speak about the "gear" not about music here ...But the gear dont exist as in investment when music is there , buying bread is not an investment nor a mere pleasure , it is living ...

We can sell bread and Bach, it is a money investment in this sense ... I will answer that "economy " is a sacred participatory act at the origin based on an exhange with the "other" ...It is a way to inhibit war and annihilation but it is more than that ...

We must rewrite economy for an age where there will be no needs unanswered , only a sacred participation in the universe ... I go to far and i will stop here ...

In a more mundane way, for me the gear is an acoustic problem to solve and understand not an investment ...Only obsessed people think about their gear as an investment to justify an obsession which is always misplaced focus of attention  ...The gear is always an interesting unsolved problem ...

The journey is about learning acoustic in my case not purchasing and buying upgrades , and the destination was always there all along : it is music listening ...😊

I am done with upgrading because when you enjoy "immersiveness" you listen music not sound defects anymore and new gear reviews appear more as useless expanse ...

Audio system are investment in and for acoustic experiences and the occasion to learn how to listen using acoustic as a tool...

The post of erik_squires say it all more eloquently than me because he design speakers anyway then he know what he talk about more than the average consumers who often purchase because it is the only solution for him....Most audio consumers pay a heavy price for ignoring acoustics and not only room acoustic ...Money dont buy knowledge...