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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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mitch4t
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For 30 years my receiver based system was good enough.
....then I discovered Audiogon and the word 'audiophile'.
I've been pursuing the elusive holy grail ever since.

"Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be audiophiles"
ejr1953
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"Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be audiophiles"
or
"Women don't let your husbands become audiophiles"

2015 was a year of upgrade after upgrade for me, after we decided to have me migrate the audio system from the living room, to my "man cave", a much larger room.
After installing my sixth bass trap (to control the boominess in the room), my wife said "I've unleashed a monster".
But I'd say I'm about 95% of the way there now.  Oops, just ordered a new headphone amp...
david12
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Like Chayro, my upgrades stopped when the money ran out, or rather, I retired. You can always improve on a system, but if you have chosen wisely, then I believe in the old rule, that you need to double the cost of a component, to really improve the sound. A little very basic maths tells you, that soon gets very expensive.

 A general guide is, that you can go to a show and all but the uber expensive rooms, sound worse or no better than your gear. At a recent show with Wilson Alexias and D'Agostino Pre and monoblocks, sure I could clearly see what I was missing.

 Secondly, do you count a day not hearing some music on your setup, as a day wasted somehow. My 2 cents worth

jl35
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or sometimes, a sideways, no cost change, can be fun, as you listen from a different perspective, not better or worse...
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knownothing
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When Stereophile arrives and you blow by all the equipment reviews and go straight to the record reviews.  Two months in a row.
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