Why did you purchase the equipment you have and what do you like most about it?

magnapans in 1982 after I heard their top of the line tympani III playing. still have 'em. much later, some thiel cs.5 speakers, as they were the only models thiel made that didn't require a monster amp  to properly drive. they image like nothing else, not even the Maggie's can image that well. 

Lots of gear over the years. I finally decided that I would buy gear that pleases me but may not follow the idea of accurate sound. My system is flawed but it's flawed in the most pleasing way. I could not be happier.

When I was looking to upgrade my system I found a PS Audio BHK 250 amp for a really good deal at Upscale Audio.  I loved the sound so much that I just kept buying PS equipment.  I now have a set of BHK 300 mono's, BHK preamp, MK2 DAC and an Airlens streamer.  The only thing that isn't from PS is the Aurender N20 and my speakers which are Focal Sopra 2's.  If I could; I would buy the PS FR30's, I just can't swing that right now, but maybe some day.

To answer the question posed in the title, I purchased my present equipment because it sounds good, and I like it because it sounds good.  This hobby really isn’t that complicated 

I was away from quality stereo equipment for about a long time since having received a Pioneer receiver, large advent loudspeakers, a used Sony reel-to-reel tape deck and Garrard turntable as gifts from my parents when I was a teen in the early 1970’s.  I enjoyed that equipment but gradually got away from it by the 1980’s.  I was working, married, didn’t have much money and bought an inexpensive all-in-one in the mid-1980’s.  I bought some gear in the 1990’s that was on a similar level to what I had as a teen, and for years that was good enough.
 

It wasn’t until 2020, when I was single again and could do anything I wanted, that I got into higher quality equipment.  I didn’t have much access to hear audiophile equipment, so I read a lot of reviews and comments.  I also had a limited budget, and that certainly shaped my thinking.  I see that a lot of members here got equipment after visiting high-end music dealers and trusting in the advice of the sales people.  I think that is why I don’t have the exotic gear that many here own.  I have a more basic system, it sounds good to me, and I don’t have anything to compare it to. I’m not one to keep chasing a sound — my room alone limits what a system can do, so I don’t see need to spend tens of thousands of dollars.