My High End Audio Gear As A Long Term Investment!!!

In 1990 I bought the best audio equipment I could afford. It is much better than I had ever had before. I have had it ever since. I enjoy it.

Now, 33 years later, some of the equipment has started to fail. I am almost done sending stuff out to have it refurbished and in some cases even upgraded. It sounds better than ever. I see no need to replace anything with things that won’t last nearly as long.

Now seeing that I'm a human being, I still look for little ways to get a little better sound. Thanks to the advice from some of the good folks on this site, I have replaced my cheap stock interconnects with Audioquest Tower cords. I noticed improvement right away and it seems to get better every time I turn the system on. Burn in? Perhaps. Maybe I’m just enjoying it more, who knows? My next step was to order the SP6 speaker cables from Morrow Audio. They are currently undergoing the 20 day burn in process at Morrow. Once I have those and am used to them, I’ll look into room treatments. That will about do it for me,

An investment? Well, only in the manner that I will have had decades worth of musical enjoyment for myself at a reasonable cost that I can afford. That’s a "sound" investment if I do say so myself.

EDIT: I should mention I purchased the Morrow Audio speaker cables when I received their Black Friday Sale notification from Audiogon.

To each their own. 

You can't put a price on psychiatric treatment.after holding peoples lives in my hand if I fail is very intense for me.music calms the savage beast even if it's 3 am driving home from the operating room listening to the stero in the car priceless investment sanity wise worth the price of admission every time.enjoy the music stay healthy.

Absolutely not. A true audiophile is never satisfied as perfection only exists in the mind. Besides, somebody has to support these poor bastards.

@mark200mph 

The process of being alive is anything but healthy, it is a fatal disease. So, get stoned and enjoy the music. You'll feel better being alive. 

I just seen the system of a "true" audiophile in the virtual page system potentially better and way more costly than mine but not necessarily actually better than mine on all acoustic BALANCED count at the end  ... I will not give name ...

For sure he investigate electronics design of the speakers but his speakers are on the floor directly with no care about vibrations/resonance , and there is no acoustic treatment and control in the room at all, probably not adressing the electrical noise/signal level of the house room nor EMI shielding and certainly no tweaks as Schuman resonator etc ... ...

I dont doubt that he is a "true" audiophile who is never "satisfied" ... I am myself always satisfied with a low cost system always well embedded but i was never an "audiophile" i guess ... Only someone learning how to embed any system to listen music with no apparent acoustic defects because i understand , using what i have, how to pass optimally the minimal acoustic satisfaction threshold identified by human ears ...I listen music now ...

Absolutely not. A true audiophile is never satisfied as perfection only exists in the mind. Besides, somebody has to support these poor bastards.

Identifying the health source in the body only is the same error than identifying the sound source qualities coming only from the gear or only from the medium ...It will be too long here to correct this deep epistemological and metaphysical error ...

The process of being alive is anything but healthy, it is a fatal disease. So, get stoned and enjoy the music. You’ll feel better being alive.