Is your now then?

I started my journey in 1975 with B&O receiver and TT with small B&O shelf speakers.Graduated to Luxman L81 amp and Linn Sondek TT feeding Rogers Studio 1 speakers in 1979. This has been replaced with my current system only in the last 6 weeks. The new system comprises,Sonus Faber Sonetto V speakers, powered by NAD C298 power amp & C 658 preamp, still with the Linn. Also a 6 year old NAD CD player.
I'm still on this journey and so much has changed in the last 40+ years. Surprise surprise. I have so much to learn. I am happy with the new system but still refining it with cables etc.
Needless to say it is a completely different experience to my old system. My son will get use of the old gear. Love to hear your thoughts on my new system,suggestions and comments welcome.

"Do you think we strive to return to the past and remain in those influential times? Are our choices psychological, nostalgic even....?"

Woody Allen referenced this perennial dream in 'Midnight in Paris'.
A tourist gets picked up by a vintage car and driven to a party taking place in the 1920s.  He stands at the same spot the next evening and the same happens.  He decides he would like to stay in the 1920s.  There he starts with a girl who has a similar experience but is taken to the Belle Epoch - the 1890s.  She decides she wants to stay there and they split.

Allen is making the point that everyone thinks the golden age was prior to that in which they are living.  It is probably a delusion.

My first was a Sansui 7070 receiver with Bose 901’s Pioneer pl112d turntable, the year is 1978 At this time it was all albums with some radio. I lived in a fringe area for radio so I installed a 50 foot mast and fm antenna. The combo of Sansui and Bose would vibrate nick nacks off shelfs of houses across the street. The Sansui could double as an arc welder on weekends. My first over budget addition was a Nakamichi Dragon cassette deck that is still in my system today and I still does not receive the respect it deserves. Our best outlet for equipment was American tv who carried everything you could want. They had a licked high end room that I was able to visit after my Dragon buy. We got to play with the new Carver system they set up. I can’t recall the speakers think they were B&W. I sat in there for over two hours damaging my ears with pure joy. This was the first time I recall hearing things in a recording that never came through the radio of my Pioneer entry level tt. Last thing I recall was walking out of the room extremely disappointed knowing I could never afford to spent that much money on a “stereo” system. Now is today and I am in a position to buy what ever I want and I happily progressing through the journey. I am now hoping to pull the trigger on a high quality r2r DAC. To answer you question. Am I trying to get back to that day with Carver? Kinda of but also aiming way higher because I can!

@notnow0329
You brought back Seinfeld to me with George and his future in-laws “you want to get nuts? Let’s get nuts!”

Do you think we strive to return to the past and remain in those influential times? Are our choices psychological, nostalgic even....?

If you don't enjoy music today as much as you did in the past, this would probably be true. I do think I enjoy it as much as before - both the music itself and the thrill of improving my sound system. Difficult to say though; what I find most enjoyable today (detail, timbre, tone) is not what I was craving as a teen (volume, bass, bass and more volume)