AUDIOPHILE OR JUST CRAZY ?


FELLAS,
I have been building and putting together systems since the sixties when I build my first health kit FM tuner ! Yes it was a father and son project my dad got me for my 11th birthday in 1967 .I have been in pursuit of the best sound system ever since, thanks to my dad who had the loudest HIFI in the neighborhood ! None of the neighbors ever complained ! i could mow the yard and hear Elvis, playing at the same time ! I have spent fortunes, in audio equipment ever since my first job .I was that kid who could spend all day at the audio superstore, looking watching listening to the systems in the speaker audition room ! The audio stores are far and few in-between these days, but here is my problem ! In the early nineties i purchased an Onkyo Grand Integra M-508 power Amp @ 225 wpc and a Onkyo P-308 pre amplifier .Went solid state, got my first R2R pioneer 909  audio reverse and a Thorens td 166 mkii turntable with a shure mm cartridge ! A Nakamichi dual Cassette deck , oh yes ! I forgot to mention my Klipsch Cornwall speakers with 15 in woofers and horns ! I was on top of the world ! None of my friends or family could touch the sound that came from that system !  
In the early 2000, i felt last decade, and got back into the tubes, with Conrad Johnson ! Since 2004 I have spent over $45,00.00 k on nothing but the best equipment money can buy ! I am still not as Thrilled as I was over Thirty years ago !
discussed , I sold everything for penny's on the dollar ! Everything except my old Onkyo m-508 and p-308, an old ADC graphic EQ , kept my old AR turntable one of Eric's Sound of the wood, and my klipsch  La Sacla's ALL Vintage Audio old ass equipment and I am the happiest i have ever been ! It is music to my years after spend $$$$$$ and never being satisfied !!!! Am I crazy or what ? I call myself EXPERIANCED ! 

128x128geurds


« Syntax and rethoric are the clothes the beggar or the rich, the healthy or the sick take when they wrote their words; ignoring that veiling a part of ourself with our language, we also unveil another part of ourself using it... Language is the best hiding place and the most open one for us to be seen at the same time. »- Anonymus Smith
THANKS TO ALL WHO HAS SPOKEN ! I AM CONSIDERING SOME OF YOUR POINTS ! I AM NOT DEAF, BUT AM GOING BLIND ! HENCE, ALL CAPS ! I LOVE BUYING S#IT AND TRYING S#IT ! MY REAL PROBLEM IS CHASING THE DREAM, AND WISHING i HAD THE FUNDS i HAVE NOW VS. HOW HARD i HAD TO WORK THEN, TO GET THE BEST OF TIMES !
ALL THE BEST MY AUDIOPHILE BROTHERS AND SISTERS !
BLESSINGS TO THE NEW YEAR !
ALL THE BEST MY AUDIOPHILE BROTHERS AND SISTERS !
BLESSINGS TO THE NEW YEAR !


right on! 
geurds,
If your system sounds good to you, that is the #1 thing.
Great you are satisfied.
Maybe, by definition, that makes you a non-audiophile.
After all these decades of upgrading, I still think of what I can tweak.
AUDIOPHILIA-THE SICKNESS!