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When did you put the most effort in setting up your audio system?

We all have this moment at the time you have put yourself through a lot of things when setting up your audio system. Please share your experience when you think in the past or present, you did put in so much efforts. 

 

To share my own experience, just to compare two different speaker products, I bought both products in new, held on to them for 4-5months. During the time I had them, I changed amps(2 different power amps), DACs(5 of them borrowed, bought and returned), speaker cables(3 times). Even after all these, I couldn't make up my mind which to keep, then let my sister, who wanted to have a pair, to choose whichever she preferred in design. Crazy... Now, I kinda know what I want, but I don't think I can put myself through chasing all those components just to test out two different products in speakers. 

So now, I am more careful choosing speakers with my existing system then take my time choosing different components. I think I know which components I am deeply attached to. 

Feel free to share your own experience. Leave a piece of your audiophile journey here, we all respect the craziness (or nerdiness) with total disregards in common logics. In Korea, audiophiles call themselves mental patients(hwan-ja in Korean pronounciation), who just do all kinds of crazy things to seek for their satisfaction in audio. I want you to join and share this patient journey, haha.    

 

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The less is the acoustics/psycho-acoustic knowledge the more audiophiles are trapped in gear obsessed neurosis...😊

It is because they feel impotent to change their soundfield if they dont "upgrade " by buying ...

By fate and luck i did not have this money to invest in my sound obsession...Then it was mandatory to study...Buying was not an option... My "tweaks" were all homemade... A seller of Tweaks did not liked it  then because i did not buy anything... He complained even to me... I take it as a compliment...😎

I had the fun of my life working my acoustic room for a year ... Being retired i could do it full time and learn...

I will never do it again though ...

Too costly in tuning time.. And what is fun because we learn become tedious when we begin it again... Acoustic is way more than buying acoustic panels of various kind by the way... I designed my hundred Helmholtz resonators in some grid disposition relatively to each speakers and ears location...It cost me nothing save my time...

That is my audiophile journey...

I am very proud to be a bad consumer and a good learner...

 

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