Would anyone respond???

I am happy with my system. Perhaps if I knew more at the time I would have went the SE path. However 15 years ago there wern't as popular as they are today, along with the selection of speakers. Everything was good ol' fashioned class-AB. I really enjoy my Proac Responce-2 and cannot see a 5 watt SE amp driving them. If you decide to by good audio equiptment at the start that you are happy with, upgrading is not needed. If you are not happy with your initial purchase, you must ask yourself why did you spend the money in the first place.

I was right there last week. It lasted for about a day and a half. Everything sounded great. And suddenly my ears gave way to my brain (such as it is) and I thought what if I........? Now I've got a couple of things on the "Gon and I'm huntin' for some other stuff. I gotta the feeling was great while it lasted:--))

I'm very, very, very happy with my system with a few caveats: 1) I believe the front end power can be cleaner via conditioners, pc's, etc., 2) I'd like to spend more time on acoustic treatments, 3) I'd like to do more work on isolation / decoupling, and 4) I'd like to supplement my digital front end with a higher end single disc player that also does SACD. Technically, I'd be changing just about everything other than my existing components ;-) Does that count?

Honestly, I love my system and am finding it hard to go to bed at night since I don't want to stop listening to music. Nonetheless, there is so much more to music reproduction than the components themselves. I think there are two general areas of focus in the land of audiophiledom: the system itself and the system environment, which includes the first three factors I mentioned plus things like room layout and speaker placement. My focus now is on the system environment. If I keep improving that, I may never get any sleep ... but what the heck!

IT NEVER ENDS! I'm getting close on one system, but then I'm already thinking through future steps towards building another. I even went to see my Doctor, who sent me to a Hematologist, who conquered HI-FI was just in my BLOOD! His recommendation was Plasma Therapy? So I took his medical advise, & purchased a 42" Hdtv Plasma, built a 7.1 Ch hi-end Home Theater system which didn't help! Some much for the medical route, as I'm right back to 2 channel! I got married a little over 3 months ago, which I thought would slow things down in it tracks? Nope! So in the words of a very wise man.... George Jetsons "Jane, Stop This Crazy Thing"???

We really have two hobbies here.

1...Some people are music lovers, and just want a system that allows them to hear the music. They don't upgrade often.

2...Some people are interested in the technology. They are always experimenting.

There is no reason why you can't have both hobbies. Both are valid.