Are you ever satisfied?


My 17 year old son was watching me work on my stereo the other day and asking me questions (much to my liking btw) about the turntable and some tweaks and stuff. After a while he asked "Do you think you'll ever be satisfied?" I did not have to think about my reply at all as I already knew the answer to that. I said "I AM already satisfied. I love the way my stereo sounds and if I could never do another thing to upgrade it I could listen happily the rest of my life. But I do enjoy tweaking it, working on it, and finding ways to improve the sound."

How about you?
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"I love the way my stereo sounds and if I could never do another thing to upgrade it I could listen happily the rest of my life. But I do enjoy tweaking it, working on it, and finding ways to improve the sound."

Nicely said. I'm with you.
My wife frequently asks the same question, but I'm sure the tone and intent is entirely different from that of your son's query. I'm down with your response - well stated. I have to say that as my system as evolved further, and as I get older (coming up on half a century in April) the tweaking aspect has been loosing its luster and I'm preferring just sitting back and enjoying what I've got more and more. At the stage my system is in now I'd have to throw copious amounts of cash to yield very small increments of improvement and I'm just not willing to do that. Life's too short and there's too much music that I haven't heard yet! Most efforts of late have just been in trying to find WAF-friendly ways to tame the room my system is in.
I'm always satisfied...until I hear something better. So I plan on only listening to my system, and others that don't sound as nice.