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The quest for sound vs. music

 The quest for perfect sound Is so voracious that it devours the enjoyment of music.  
After you’ve reached a point where you can enjoy music on your system, no more tweaks are necessary. Any further improvements are superfluous.  The problem Is, if Hifi is your hobby you want to actively involve yourself in it.  You can’t sit back and leave it alone.  If you stop twiddling with it, it ceases to be an active hobby. That’s where the contradiction is.  The enjoyment of music ceases to be the goal.  The “hobby” predominates.
If you can listen for the music, everything falls into place.  The work you’ve done assembling your system has paid off and you can revel in how beautiful the music is.

But, your hobby is over.
rvpiano

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cleeds
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roxy54
... I think that reasonable audiophiles go through cycles of tweaking/component change periodically, and then fairly long periods of satisfaction and musical enjoyment during which they don’t really give serious thought to upgrades. I know that’s how it goes for me, and I get he feeling it’s that way for many others from comments I read.
I think you’re absolutely correct. While there is the stereotype of the audiophile who’s always changing equipment (like the guy posting on Agon who’s always swapping amplifiers), I think it’s just a caricature. There’s not a lot of incentive to upgrade once you reach a certain level of performance.

Technology often drives my upgrades, even though I’m not an early adopter.
don_c55
Highly evolved systems over time and experience, give you sound you like most ... True sonic breakthroughs are very rare now
Exactly.
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