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Have you become too jaded with this hobby???

Greetings fellow A'goners.After posting a reply to a question in another forum section I started pondering if this was happening to me.I had put together a modest system that one of my coworkers(who happens to play bass in a band that just opened for Dokken & is getting ready to cut thier first record for a major lable)was completely blown away by.He had NEVER heard a stereo system that sounded so good according to him & decided he wanted me to help him build a system.A short while later I screwed up & killed my integrated amp so I sold off everything in the name of the almighty upgrade.After my reply in the other forum I now wonder if I am heading down the slippery slope of diminishing returns...So my question to all of you is this:Have you become so jaded by this hobby that you can NOT sit down in front of a VERY simple,inexpensive but well put together & set up system without disecting everything you hear & only focusing on what the system does NOT do,or can you still just listen to a simple VERY inexpensive system or a small portable radio & still enjoy the music?I look forward to your replies,Take care...
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tobias
1,534 posts
 
The effect of real music is not to make us analyze and dissect the sound. Music properly reproduced appeals to another part of the brain/body system. So the challenge in this hooby is to build a system that plays mussic. That means finding equipment combinations that work well together. If you sit down in front of a system and start dissecting everything you hear, that means the system is not playing music. It doesn't matter what it cost. A small system can do the job.

Have I become jaded in this hobby? I get jaded pdq when I l have to listen to a system that makes me dissect the sound.
onemug
784 posts
 
I have not become jaded.

I have a couple systems that can produce (re-produce) a lot of musical information and I love listening to them.

I also have a vintage system in a guest bedroom that has a pair of Altec Valencias and will pick one of my old Marantz receivers to drive them. I love that one too. I even marvel at what the Bose Wave Radio can do.

For me, like Mofi said, it's about the music.
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zmanastronomy
738 posts
 
I'm enjoying the computer system I'm on right now. It's not hi end at all.
It's all about the music.
sid42
301 posts
 
I've actually had the opposite happen, I've heard some cheap systems, and even the stereo in my truck, blow me away with the sound, to the point of wondering what in the world am I spending so much money on audio eqipment for. I enjoy my audio aystem, but occasionally, a very inferior system will really give me pause for thought!
meiwan
399 posts
 
I used to have a $25k system and got bored with it - sold off everything and gave up on 2 channel except for a very modest one box system for my office. Decided I miss it, so set a budget of $2k per piece, built up a nice computer based system and have never been happier. I think diminishing returns really start to kick in after that which don't add to my enjoyment of the music, just my desire for bigger and better.
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