I don’t know if anyone else is like me, but the more I spend on something, the more I question whether it is really better. Say, if I was over at a friend’s house and he was playing his $5,000 system, and then I go back to my (only in my dreams) $30,000 system, I would be questioning whether it is really that much better than what my friend has. I would be driving myself crazy with tweaks to try to get THEE best sound . . what I paid for. But it would likely still not sound good enough to justify in my mind that I got what I paid for. The more I spent, the more I would feel these doubts and the more money I would be tempted to spend to get to the elusive higher level of musical nirvana.
On the other hand, I can go out to my backyard deck and listen to the Bluetooth speakers in the shape of a rock that cost $200 that my ex-girlfriend gifted me, and I just listen and enjoy and think “This sounds good”. I don’t drive myself crazy with wanting to tweak — it is what it is, and that’s fine. Probably just me.
On the other hand, I can go out to my backyard deck and listen to the Bluetooth speakers in the shape of a rock that cost $200 that my ex-girlfriend gifted me, and I just listen and enjoy and think “This sounds good”. I don’t drive myself crazy with wanting to tweak — it is what it is, and that’s fine. Probably just me.