How many of us are truly satisfied with their systems?

Elizabeth said it best. 
  If you’re an audiophile, you tweak, because you’re an audiophile.
If you didn’t tweak, you wouldn’t be an audiophile.

 It’s all in your head.

It is not easy to exhibit financial restraint when it comes to our hobbies or passions (in our case, music & audio). However, retirement or impending retirement will certainly force one to do so. If you are in that boat, I hope that after 40 - 50 years of trial and error, you've managed to find an audio system that you either love or can at least live with.

I am satisfied, but it took a quarter century to get there and I have two systems to give me everything I want.  But it is possible!

I guess I'm one of the uninformed happy ones. I haven't purchased anything of substance in over 6 years, my speakers haven't been relocated, nor has my chair been relocated. I fiddle with minor stuff on rainy days but for the most part all of my audiophile energy has been redirected to the recorded music  aspect of this hobby. My present systems sounds good enough for me as is, but I can always appreciate new music.

It is possible for some to be truley satisfied but probably out of reach of most of us....

Master Po: It is written in the 'Tao Te Ching', "Under heaven, all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil. Therefore, having and not having arise together. Difficult and easy complement each other. High and low rest upon each other. Front and back follow one another."

Caine: But Master, do we not want all men to know our peace, our joy?

Master Po: Would you make the whole world a temple? Be like the sun, and what is within you will warm the earth.