HAVE YOU ARRIVED AT YOUR FINAL SYSTEM AND WHAT’S IN IT? WHAT ARTIST IS YOUR GO TO?

For sure if i win lottery i will buy a 50,000 bucks new audio system...😁😊

Not because i need it , i dont need it at all , my days are filled with music on my well embedded 700 bucks modified headphones or speakers dual system , then unique headphones and unique speakers because modified for the best and i  had passed then with them over the minimal balanced acoustic satisfaction threshold...

I am lower than the optimal balanced acoustics satisfaction threshold, but being on the minimal treshold dont means that timbre of instruments are unnatural, nor means that i lack bass (50 clear hertz on speakers and 25 hertz on headphones ) no more than i lack anything in spatial characteristics of sound nor in immersiveness ...

Then upgrading with a 50,000 bucks system , thanks to the winning lottery, does not means that i need it now to experience audiophile experience at all ...

Why ?

Because before this upgrade i learned acoustics and i learned how to embed my low cost system mechanically electrically and acoustically ...

I suffered all my life listening music , because of bad sound , even owning one of the best speakers in the world , the Tannoy dual concentric ...

Why ?

Because before retirement i never learned acoustics basic science nor anything about embeddings working controls and "tweaks" (which are secondary additions to embeddings controls ) ... I was convinced by marketing and reviewers that in audio only money can talk loud ...

I was ignorant ...

I am no more ignorant ....

I dont need a 50,000 bucks system by frustration because the 700 bucks one is bad or defective, it is not ...

The upgrading will not be a SOLUTION but only a cherry on an acoustic cake i control at will and it will be another costlier synergetical system because now i know what is electrical and acoustical synergy ...

Acousticians dont care about the audio design price if the audio design is synergetical and relatively good , and they not how to put any good audio system at any price on his corresponding moon for sure , a 700 bucks system dont compete with a 50,000 one... But the two can be stellar in their own way ...

I’m old school. But my system is ever evolving. I dig listening to vinyl most. My electrostatics are still serving me well. No sub needed. In fact, I recently sold the sub because it wasn’t being used. I swap between tube monos and solid state Class A monos, but mainly tubes. I use a dac and cd transport only occasionally. 
 

Kudos to having a passion for Ahmad Jamal! A heckuva player and band leader! My passion is for Miles, and Wes. I’m still stuck in the 50’s jazz scene. Great thread !

Grimm MU1 streamer/Lampizator Horizon DAC-preamp/Gryphon Antilleon EVO amp/Rockport Cygnus speakers/Shunyata---Altaira ground system--Everest power cond--all cables are Omega or Sigma V2. 4 Synergistic purple fuses. (subs are Mini Marty roundovers with 18 inch B and C drivers, MiniDSP SHD room correction and crossover with PS Audio M700 monos-frequency is just 30 to 16hz, mains signal does not go through the MiniDSP, subs "tuck in" under the Rockports. Tuning done by Deer Creek Audio).

I listen to Boz Scaggs and the 2 live concerts from Jackson Browne. I use the live Browne tracks as I can hear more and more of the audience coments as my system improves. I know this is an odd choice, but what was some mumbles 5 years ago I can now understand almost completely. 

@coltrane1 I CAN DIG IT! 

@jacobsdad2000 man I post here to relax and get away from the serious work I do as a lawyer. I love the hobby. I have built some great relationships in it. I don’t care to argue. I’m posting as an audiophile just like everyone else. I try to learn more each day to make my listening experience better. I have not one time in this post pushed the equipment that I sell. That’s not the purpose for this forum. I will push my equipment at upcoming shows. But this post is what I like to do off work. Learn as much as I can and engage with my fellow audiophiles. I will continue to do that. Audio is a hobby first. Side job second. Full disclosure. That guy is hell bent on some kind of revenge for a perceived slight. That’s his issue not mines. I’m going to be posting a lot and most will have nothing to do with the brand I work with. So I’m not going to always bring that up.  Just my two cents my brother.