Homage to those who are pleased with your audio rig

OP,

Thank you. Yes, most importantly we need to enjoy what we have! Music is such an enjoyable experience. If not retired, a great place to go and just experience the moment and forget the daily frenetic pace of life and live in the moment. You don’t need a mega system to do that. But nice to have something to dream about and look forward to.

I enjoy the heck out of my system. It fits my tastes perfectly -- a system that offers up three-dimensionality,  unforced, natural tone quality, and that doesn't have to play very loudly to get this. I truly don't need a lot of volume, anyway.. 85db peaks are all I need for a good time. True, I've had my share of components that went belly-up over the years, but I guess that's par for the course. I've had cartridges that could no longer track. Turntables that began to suffer from bearing noise and that developed wow. Tone arms that got sticky. CD players that just up & died. Last but not least, I must say that listening quality took a substantial leap when I buiilt a house with a special, dedicated stereo room.

I have to admit, that I finally scratched the itch. Even though there is still room to grow, I finally got the music in my system to a point where I am not hearing any sound that is lacking, where I think I need some other upgrade.

I can finally just sit back, relax and enjoy; instead of lean forward, inspect and investigate. :)

I absolutely love my system very analog sounding, here's what the system consists of, Sim audio p8 preamp, Sim audio w8 amp, esoteric P10 transport, Wyred 4 sound 10th anniversary dac, this thing is a giant killer one of the most analog sounding dacs that I've ever listened to, monarchy audio up sampler, digital and analog interconnects are all Harmonic technology magic gen 3, speaker cable is Harmonic technology pro 9 gen 3 bi-wired and the power cords are all Harmonic technology pro 10, all the wiring is OCC single crystal wire which has been proven now for 50 years to be the best wire for audio, and finally the speakers are monitor audio platinum 200 Gen 2 and they're sitting on my latest addition the Townshend podiums which stop all Earth and speaker vibrations from shaking the speaker the most significant upgrade I've made it sounds like I have a whole new system with the addition of the podiums far superior to the isoacoustic Gaia but they cost three times as much and well worth it, the system is worth over 60,000 Canadian and I will put it up against $200,000 systems and I know this will beat them.

When I finally reached that point of clarity that tells one that there is no such thing as audio perfection, I began chasing the important Dragon. The music. When I opened myself up to all music genres the magic really took hold. There is always something beautiful or interesting just around the corner. What a blast it is at 58 years old to find music from all over the world with just a click. My system still excites me and gives chills on rainy Oregon nights, so all in all I feel blessed. At this moment I am running Klipsch Khorns, LaScalas and Heresy speakers driven by 3 Mac MC252 amps and a Mac C50 pre. Subs are SVS SB4000, SVS SB300 and an SVS PC2000 Ultra. CD player is a Marantz SACD7S1. Cabling by Audioquest and Audio Envy. All in a large room that is a well treated living quarters that I do not share with anyone so I get on it a lot. Life is good.