Wasted Years.

When  I think of all the years I wasted listening for sound rather than music I am totally chagrined .  After a very long period of placing the quality of my stereo above the beauty of music I’ve finally come around to what I started listening to music for in the first place.  It’s especially a source of embarrassment for me since I spent the first few decades of my life as a musician!  
My quest for getting better sound actually replaced my quest for the greater appreciation of my art.  
 What a pleasure it now is to search for things to play based on what I really love rather than picking out something because I want to hear how it sounds.  What an empty pursuit that is for me! 
It actually took many of my (and others’) postings on this forum to achieve this state of mind.  
Now I appreciate all the work I put into the sound even more.

Nirvana!