Upgraditis?


Anyone here in constant upgrade mode?  Listening to the same choice records or CDs over and over again after some new change in gear?
 Unfortunately, I find myself in this mode far too often.  Eventually this becomes a way of life.
 Music becomes secondary to the latest tweak. As a retired musician, theoretically, this shouldn’t happen to me. But it does.  I should be listening to new works and comparing performances.
 It’s a dangerous trap!
rvpiano

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@rvpiano Come back to the classical music thread you started a while ago.  People will re-start posting recommendations of new stuff for us to listen to.
The advantage of inexpensive tweaks is that they give you something to agonize about for a while, thereby postponing the need to make that next big purchase...
Yes.  I think upgraditis begets upgraditis.  You get a new component, you're on that endorphin high, and you crave more.  If you can hold on, it will level off, and you can stick with the status quo for a while, but then some trigger will come along, like hearing someone else's system, and you're back on the roller coaster.

How many here have upgraded two or more components in close succession, followed by a relative period of calm?
Again, I submit that scratching the itch does not soothe it but rather only serves to exacerbate it.  After recently buying yet another Mahler 4 (Ivan Fischer this time) I found myself seriously contemplating rounding out the already substantial collection with enough versions to permit the writing, if I wanted to, of one of those completist comparative review-articles you find in magazines.  Ay!