Welcome to retirement life. No more schedules and “I must get this done by...”.
The main thing is to buy what you like and what you enjoy to listen to. There is no such thing as a perfect system and it is very subjective too.
As a retirement present to myself, I bought myself a simple and non clutter system because I no longer want to have multiple components and cables running among them. I purchased the Devialet 1000 Pro with a pair of Focal Maestro to simplify my home. The source is a custom built cube PC by my son-in-law with two dedicated 6TB hard drives with Tidal / JRiver as digital music management. I will later re-condition my 40-year old turntable as analogue source and same vintage NAD CD player for my CD collections.
The main thing is to buy what you like and what you enjoy to listen to. There is no such thing as a perfect system and it is very subjective too.
As a retirement present to myself, I bought myself a simple and non clutter system because I no longer want to have multiple components and cables running among them. I purchased the Devialet 1000 Pro with a pair of Focal Maestro to simplify my home. The source is a custom built cube PC by my son-in-law with two dedicated 6TB hard drives with Tidal / JRiver as digital music management. I will later re-condition my 40-year old turntable as analogue source and same vintage NAD CD player for my CD collections.