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How does one get off the merry-go-round?

I'm interested in hearing from or about music lovers who have dropped out of the audio "hobby." I don't mean you were content with your system for 6 weeks. I mean, you stood pat for a long time, or--even better--you downsized...maybe got rid of your separates and got an integrated.

(I suppose if you did this, you probably aren't reading these forums any more.)

If this sounds like a cry for help, well, I dunno. Not really. I'm just curious. My thoughts have been running to things like integrated amps and small equipment racks and whatnot even as I continue to experiment and upgrade with vigor (I'm taking the room correction plunge, for example.) Just want to hear what people have to say on the subject.

---dan
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tbg
5,263 posts
 
Carey1110, on the mark.

I have never understood this thread. I have not spent 40 plus years in this hobby because I wanted to get off. I have often thought that my reproduction of music could not get better only to have this crushed by something new. Given how much better my sound is now than even five years ago and the thrill of hearing a quality performance in substantial realism when I want to hear it hardly causes me to want to drop the hobby.
mmike84
309 posts
 
Who wants off the Merry go round?
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kabir
36 posts
 
go bankrupt
detlof
1,899 posts
 
Get yourself this or that gear is not the point. Our tastes are too varied and the one man's heaven is the other man's hell..and as Tbg so rightly says, why get off at all. This IS our hobby and our passion and that's all there is to it. What most of us do reach however, after a long learning period which may have cost plenty, is that level of contentment, where the need to experiment further and to spend more money gets down to practically zero.
macrojack
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I think Drubin is talking about not going round and round any longer. He didn't mention leaving the amusement park
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