What's going on with the audio market?

60, 59, ?

I'm keeping the faith. Learning as much as I can. Shopping to get a feel for prices. And dealing with my denial about my hearing loss.

Lately? Mostly listening. I want to replace my entire system but every so often I hear the kind of music coming from my speakers/headphone that makes me ask myself, "Why bother changing anything?"

Small sample size thus far but I’d venture to say you guys have "been there, done that."

I have two friends with good systems but they do not feel the need to continuously tweak/upgrade, or they may want to but spend discretionary income elsewhere.

I have other friends that come over for dinner/drinks and we end up in the music room. They love the sound but when they start asking about price they are somewhat turned off.

Telling them you got a great deal on a phone-pre at $2,750 is like telling them it was $25K...same reaction.

I have become numb to some prices and I find my price search range increases little by little each search.

37, 15, ?

I say 15 because I put a nice Sony separates system together with Pioneer 3 way speakers and Monster Cables..not bad for that age.

67, 50, ?

Working on keeping my "end of life" system running.

Have more than enough music to listen to.

Have IMO, state of art sound quality, for not crazy expense.

I have ended my search for "Musical Ecstasy" in the home!

Do not have it "ALL", but have "Enough", for a satisfied mind!

The end of the middle class, killed the market! Everyone is holding on to what they have!

65,40,?

Audio equipment is about the only thing that I feel good about buying.  It's much more important than things that one must buy, like roofs and lawn mowers.  Those things are painful to buy when I could get a new piece of gear.