members and their systems

@birdscantrow
Please don't judge this site by the obnoxious behavior of certain people. Don't worry, all you need to do is extoll the virtues of springs, Schumann generators or Tekton Moabs and he will be your friend, at least until you ask your next question. 

@glupson. Thank you  I teach high school English and collegiate education.

Also, several people have really identified how many of us do manage to afford it. Well, those of us who don't have as much income as arrest. When I was first starting out in this hobby some 10 or 15 years ago, I could never have afforded what I have now. But the whole idea of trade up really works out over time.


For example, a component I buy for $1,000 I might sell for close to that and then buy another component for maybe $1,500. I might sell that for as close to that as I can, then buy another component worth $2,000, and so on.  Overtime you start getting components built on the financial fossilized remains of your previous ones

I have wondered about this as well.  There must be some extremely rich people in this group and some extremely understanding wives.  I still have to answer to the gate keeper and I don’t want to take her on.

I am somewhat in your corner. I have what I consider to be a very good system and very content with. To a lot of posters here I would be labeled as a low end entry systems. I could afford to spend five or 10 times more than the 10k I have but tell me will it sound 10 times better? I don’t think so. I have heard 100 k systems and they do sound better but not 90k better! Will I never buy another or replace a current piece no I am sure something will come along that I will want, but it will have to be a good return on investment. To me this return is about the enjoyment of the music not the status or a bragging right. I would rather have someone think I paid way more for the performance than someone not recognize the performance because they can’t get over that my system cost more than their house!
Enjoy the music that is why we are here!!

Also, don’t let some of the snarky posters get you down. They are the exception to this community rather than the rule. They spew BS at every opportunity, insult at will and stare at their screen non stop waiting for their next victim. In addition, when viewing their system pictures on some occasion I wonder why they they fret over their carbon fiber cable elevators rather than replace their bordello red carpeting but hey, everyone allocates their own resources to their own satisfaction.

I'm crying.   LOL

This paragraph should be made into a framed poster and be hanging in the Audiogon offices.  Thanks, @ghasley -- you made my week!