2021 audio system wish list


So, what changes, if any, are you planning to your system for 2021? 
zavato
Nope!

Content with my gear.

Raven Audio Blackhawk.
Raven Audio CeLest Towers.
Raven Audio Soniquil  Speaker, XLR, RCA and Power Cables.
Moon By Simaudio 280D DAC/DSD
Audiolab 6000CDT
Icon PS2 Phono Stage.
Thorens TD145 totally reworked.

I am just going to buy more music in 2021 and support my favorite artists.

go buy some music you dead beats....
Maybe:
- a Puritan Audio 136 or 156 power conditioner- Townsend Seismic Isolation Pods

Definitely:
Keep buying more music


I'd like to try some Iso-Pucks between my dowel-legged speakers and the hardwood floors.
Some of the most fundamental changes to my system building in a decade are happening right now, at the end of 2020. I am updating essential characteristics of my systems, and making changes to the genres of equipment that I will use in system building. I have three reviews underway that have been transformational in terms of giving new direction to the type of equipment I will use in reviewing and personal listening.

Barring a truly radial change technologically, some genres (not brands, but genres) of equipment going forward I will no longer consider worthy of my time/effort in reviewing, which speaks to the profundity of the changes. Over the years I have attempted to be open to a wide variety of genres of equipment, but the current circumstances are leading inexorably to elimination of some classes of gear - they simply have been eclipsed to such a degree that their internet weaknesses now overshadows their potential strengths. 

I did not foresee this six months ago; a lot has changed in a relatively short period of time. Things will become public as the reviews are published in 2021. It's been an exhausting end to 2020 (Before Christmas I contracted Covid-19 and double pneumonia. I was hospitalized for three days, but am on the mend.) for me as a system builder, but I feel as though many years of dogged determination and unpaid work are bringing systemic changes that will both allow me to work more efficiently and make higher grade systems.