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Should I upgrade my system while losing my hearing?

WOW!!! My system sounds great. Wifey says it sounds great & leave it alone. Yet I believe I know the weak spot in my system and I want to upgrade it (Tonearm). Yet some would say that my amp is weak. Its just a VTA Dynaco ST-70. But Lordy, does it sound good. Even so, I'll probably replace it because the power switch is on the back which makes it hard to get to turn it on *& off.. But then I think of my age (68) in 2 months and my hearing loss and I ask,   does it make sense to upgrade? Should I really spend thousands of $$$$$$ to get a 3-8% improvement? But who's to say it won't be 20%..........25%? And with my hearing loss, will I be able to hear it? I hear music pretty good. Its conversation I don't hear. But I've heard enough conversations , etc anyway. 
I often think about my old step father who often said, "There ain't no fool like an old fool". I think I understand what he meant.. AWW I'm gonna do what I want anyway. Just making conversation. But does it make sense to upgrade my system? Or get hearing aids? Ain't gettin' old fun?

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millercarbon
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Same deal here artemus. You got a few years on me but only a few. Same deal. In fact I'll do ya one better, I wandered down that maudlin path so far three whole years went by where I never once played a record but only watched movies. Because, why bother with "serious listening" any more. Can't hear like when I was young. Might as well just take a bullet. Get it over with.

Seriously. True story. Three years gathering dust. Finally one day, not making this up, thought well might as well sell it all but at least listen to it one more time before you do. 

One side of Jennifer Warnes and I'm like what were you thinking??? Next thing you know its new Koetsu, Herron, a few tweaks and, well I won't say never been happier but never sounded better and anyway happy enough!

Nother true story. There was this guy I knew DJ Casser, had a seat on the commodities exchange then ran a little company Black Diamond Racing making the world's best audiophile vibration control devices. Changed names to BDR then kind of disappeared. Not 10 minutes ago I was searching around trying to figure out why the world's best would just disappear like that. Did a search for DJ Casser and found out why
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/jsonline/obituary.aspx?pid=155509004

Capiche?
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Would anyone work on the engine and transmission of a high performance automobile like a Ferrari if all four of the tires were almost flat? I think of correcting a hearing loss much the way I see the inflation of tires on a high performance race car. One really cannot move forward without the removal of some simple, basic obstacles to high performance.
miketee
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A friend with severe hearing loss got some newer hi-tech digital hearing aids, bought a new Naim Supernait 2 and hasn’t looked back. Loves it. 
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You could hoard the savings for the grandkids instead.
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