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When is your Hifi good enough?

Just wondering what makes people tick in regards to determining when things sound "good enough"?

For me I have a vision in my mind of how things should sound based on what I have heard over the years.  Once it sounds that way, I am done.   I can still enjoy listening to other sounds or sounds that omit some things I might want otherwise but if I do not get regular samplings of "that sound" I probably start to wonder.
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dweller
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1. Lack of any audible distortion,

2. Good textural variety (to me, tubes kind of smooth everything out),

3. Even tonal color and density, and

4. Adequate dynamics (I like a lively sound i.e., P.R.A.T.).

Yep, that'll work...

chayro
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It’s good enough when you either run out of money or interest. Otherwise, it can always be improved. If you’re interested and you have the money. 
newbee
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When you can't think of anything that will improve on what you already have.
 I don't own the 'best' of anything, but I have invested a lot of time in synergy and set up of what I have. I often sit and think how nice some other stuff might be, but then, when I really think about it, I can't think of what I'm really trying to get out of my system. I'm happy, I'm done. Now if I could just lose the fantasies. 

I solve this problem by re-directing my energy to finding new music. 
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mapman OP
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chayro, but if its "good enough", why keep at it?  That would seem to indicate that in fact it is not for whatever reason. 
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mapman OP
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Newbee, we are similar in that regard I would say.
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