Do you trust your system?

+2, @thyname 

I am now more focused on finding best possible recordings than worrying about equipment upgrades. 

There is NO system that sounds real...or is truth telling. All you can achieve is a reasonable, if that, facsimile of what was recorded. The only difference between one system to another is they all sound different. Like a dog chasing his tail or the proverbial merry go round. Just be happy your not listening to a boom box. Otherwise you will end up in the Nut house. Also, unless you were in the recording studio at the time the recording was layed down to tape, how are you supposed to know how it was intended to sound? You can’t....people are wasting a whole lot of money swapping and selling in an attempt to achieve what is not possible. Like a few say here, just enjoy the music, and buy more of it, meaning buy more physical media. Sorry, streaming is not for me, except to find or discover new music.

The recording of a significant amount of modern pop and rock music goes way beyond the use of relatively simple eqs, compression and reverb that would have been the staples of the signal chain in studios before the advent of computer based recording. The result is that a lot of modern pop/rock recordings do not sound great. That is is the fault of the use of the technology and not the technology itself, I should add as evidenced by the fact that there are many excellent computer based digital recordings of other musical genres such as classical and jazz. As far as I'm concerned, unless the recording is totally excreable, I'll listen whatever music I like regardless of the recording quality. I'don't subscribe to the theory that a revealing system makes bad recordings sound worse, rather that it makes it easier to hear "through" the recording to the music.

Yes I trust my system and I know why that is reality. There was no luck involved.

Should I one day go down the Class D path, I will trust my choice there for the same reason.

My system is invariant between different recordings/mastering/genres etc.

I don't have streaming where I understand that music is deliberately coloured by the use of MQA and other tricks and so the system may have to be tuned or whatever to accommodate this technology.  

As above- My system will never cheat nor steal from me. Very satisfied.

Happy Listening!