beernutA fool and his money...
Seems like you are putting band-aids on without understanding why....
Yeh, could be me.
But, I no longer drink, don’t gamble, not a drug dealer, not into cars. My vice then is sound. Harmless - or if harmful, only harming my bank balance.
I haven’t got the desire to replace my amp for anything in the vicinity of $10+ thousand.
I’ve been wanting to get my system to a point where if I suddenly keeled over, I’d be satisfied with it.
Replacing my speakers with ATC SCM19 v2 was one of the first changes, and a huge step forward. (With a ’visual’ wife, the system has to be hidden, no cables, no ugly...)
My music has never sounded better, and I’m looking forward to summer; lounge doors open in the day, or the evenings.