Are you ever satisfied?

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.

"Don't worry... Be happy"

Some call it hobby, I call it "Gardener's Syndrome" (gardener always has to find something to trim or re-pot).

Jax2 - I'm with you. Now, I have decent system (I think) and only something really great would make me spend money. I'm afraid to go to audio shows for that reason.

Unfortunately, room is the most expensive part and "taming" it is completely new (and expensive) game.

Depends on when the question is asked. I am inclined to be happy to listen until something goes wrong. After that, sometimes it takes quite a while to get the "magic" back.