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I need help with my Equipment addiction

I can't leave well enough alone. My most disappointing days are days like today where I sit down to listen to my system, drink some wine, and unwind and... the system sounds great. I hate that. Nothing to tweak, everything is intergrating well: Clear highs, check. Fast, deep bass, check. Digital sound good with weight and impact, Check. Vinyl sound deep and well rounded with extended highs and excellent speed, check.

That's when the trouble starts. I start thinking, "What if changed cartridges?" "Well then I need a step up transformer, or a seperate MC phono stage", "Maybe I should just look at new preamps, even thbough I love mine now", "Then I need a separate phono preamp, I've always wanted an ARC preamp", then "Hey then I could buy an ARC tube amp for the high end of the Maggies and get bi-amp them"

Does it ever stop? How can I stop the cycle? I think I'm going to drink some more wine.
macdadtexas
phaelon
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"I can't leave well enough alone"

Nor should you. The greatest among us achieve greatness precisely because they can't leave well enough alone. Intrepid souls, often flying into the dark unknown in utter defiance of conventional wisdom, armed only with the courage of an explorer, and that insatiable spirit that took the slowest, weakest species on the planet and gave it lordly dominion over all. Go man go!
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onhwy61
5,150 posts
 
Swampwalker, my comments were also tongue in cheek, well, at least partially.
Go man go!
I hope that comment was also TIC.
jw94055
125 posts
 
Imagine new equipment,research, ponder, shop, decide and then give that amount of money to the charity(s) of your choice. All the fun of dreaming and doing good to boot.
macdadtexas OP
1,794 posts
 
I was good for 3 weeks, but I just bought some new tubes for the output stage of my preamp (the Pope Hollands I wanted are no longer available, Darn it!!), and a new sub cable for my Rel. I think I'm like an addict that has been off the stuff for a while and just had a beer.

Hey look, someone's got some 20.1's for sale, and an ARC Ref 5, oh man and there's an ARC Ref2 phono, now I just need to put my gear up for sale. Let's see if I move money from this account to that, the wife will never know how much more I spent.........
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jmcgrogan2
6,346 posts
 
I got my Pope's! :D

Cheers,
John
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