Older And Wiser or just Tighter and Deafer?

I’d say something is not quite right with you but I cannot know what this might be.
I do it simple way. I spend a more or less fixed amount on audio upgrades per year. This might vary depending on different factors but not too much. Currently it is about $2k per year. This doesn’t mean that I will spend this amount every year, I could spend $4k on one piece and buy nothing else for two years, unless something breaks. But I cannot get something for $10k and then do no upgrades for five years. The amount is too big for me to spend it all at once unless I can finance it with 0% credit cards, moving from one card to another for five years. Now that is possible considering my high credit rating. So, theoretically, yes, I can do it, but at the moment I won’t. Not in the mood, and the system is balanced enough.

As a footnote, I would say that there is absolutely nothing - in any sense- that I wouldn't want to upgrade..

Do you know what year this is ? Maybe you are in another time period and things feel different there ?

Papa, good to hear from you and your unshakable " Communist China Virus " cry. This is one point I agree with. But we should’ve been prepared much better and acted much more quicker and decisively than we did and still do. The virus is going to be slowly suppressed but not eliminated any time soon. You don’t do elimination like that. Look at New Zealand and yes, China. I got tired of this sort of prison too but we got to continue or it will be a disaster. No amount of music can compensate for this unnatural lack of space, both physical and mental. It is getting harder. We just have to hang on. I expect serious improvements soon enough unless they screw it up, but do worry about possible second wave in fall/winter. It might happen, no-one knows for sure.

To hell with all this stuff. That's how you do things. 
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