No, and it’s a rather silly thing to be competitive about! I’m not traditionally competitive anyways - mostly concerned with my own solitary pursuits of knowledge, skill, and self-satisfaction. I guess a "lone wolf" kind. All systems I’ve heard fall into 2 major categories: ones I like, and ones I don’t like. That’s the major demarcation. Getting good feedback can be OK in the moment, but it’s not meaningful nor necessary to me in the long run. I listen to much different material and SPLs than most audiophiles anyways. I am the sole arbiter of my audio pursuits!
The most incompatible guys with me are the ones who have this innate drive to feel like they’ve achieved "better sound" (whatever that means) than someome else while spending less money. Such a very foreign mindset to mine! This for me is a highly subjective pursuit of passion; money (within reason) and competition (mixing subjectivities) does not matter.
Validation
To go along with my post about how competitive you are regarding your set, is this question: Do you need someone to validate the quality of your set or can you be happy with it all by yourself? In my case, no one has heard my set in a long time and I’ve made many improvements. So far, I’m very pleased with what I’ve done, but I do wonder what others might think.
How about you?
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The smile on my face when I crank it up is all I need. My son and son in law were over the other day . They have heard my main system a number of times in its different incarnations over the years . They haven't heard my second system since new speakers and amp. When they heard that tiny system come to life they were quite surprised. It was fun watching their reaction. |
What’s the latest change(s) in the system @rvpiano did you get a new DAC? |
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