Do you spend more on audio than your income allows

Your Honda is just breaking in. Keep it for 25 more yrs. We drive a 16 yr. old Lexus. Screw the new car look. If we had unlimited funds we would still drive the 16 yr old car. Vintage motering is in.

Debt free living is where it is at these days. Going into debt for audio gear is not very smart and I am sure that ALL the members here are NOT doing the loan/credit card thing.

What do you have in your system?

Never, but it is a battle. Overall my system cost me close to half for what it retails by: buying demos/used equipment; doing extensive research in selecting components which punch above their weight, such as Mapletree Audio 2A SE Linestage Preamp, to keep costs down; DIYing a few things; getting lucky and graced by kindness of others. It took much patience and longer than I would have preferred, sold some personal items and worked extra jobs for extra cash. This afforded me a rocking system without debt. However, being human, I do still lust for objects out of my financial reach. Fortunately, when my lust grows out of control I just fire up my system and everything falls back into perspective.

Hey I hear you...same here, instead of paying off my morgage faster, I'm thinking of new equipment. But we all have certain downfalls. Different people spent money on different things. People have been buying 40 K SUV, even though they have no family. I think important thing is to feel good about what we're doing, and if we're on a "budget" and do a certain amount of search so that we don't spend too much more money that we could have with the same results.