Is it ever enough?

i’m at that end game point in my system building journey......and am about to retire in a year or so. so it’s asset allocation time. do i want to continue to have as much in my hifi commitment (including my separate hifi building), or do i cash in some hifi chips and switch my focus to other pass-times?

i have worked 6 days a week for almost 50 years.....hifi was my life balance i could do every day to recover. but without my work stress will hifi continue to occupy my time enough to pull it's weight in my life balance?

sure; i could still make small system changes to what i have, but it would be sideways moves to do just to keep my fires burning......and my hifi muscles loose.

check back in 12-18 months and we will see.

it might have been ’enough’. :-)

and my ’enough’ i think is plenty.

I have plenty of recordings that "suck" but the music is incredible. Most of them are just a product of their times. It is like looking at an antique. Take the trim off a stunning Philadelphia high boy and you will see the most awful dovetailing. It was viewed differently back then. 

Audio is a maze. You head down a path and run into a dead end. You turn around, take a different route and bump your nose again. Over time you learn what paths lead to a dead end and eventually find a right path. Hopefully, along the way you learn how things work and how to do manipulate the technology to your purpose. 

I started young. I got my first record player at the age of 4. My father had a great system in it's day making my own players sound like sh-t. So, I started down the path of improvement. I built my first Dynakit at the age of 13. Using a soldering iron was a necessity as I could not afford anything but kits. I had to earn the money to buy everything. Used equipment was the rule otherwise. It has been a long evolutionary process with several long periods of stasis (children are expensive.) I have always had an upgrade path in mind and I am on a roll again. Technology moves on and I am an early adopter. There is always room for improvement and I do not expect to stop any time soon. The kids are on their own and my wife and I do not have a very expensive lifestyle.  There is money to burn and I plan on burning it. 

Mike... best of luck.
Adopting an attitude embodying curiosity and interest in how things unfold is fun, isn't it?

I'm DONE!

Well, perhaps a better Mono Stylus based on listening to Miles Davis Sketches of Spain the other night. I realized, modern mono lps are worthy of more than elliptical.

I'm 75 in 2 years, I'll have to cook up some desire by then, shouldn't be hard.

Oh yeah, there's an unsightly hole in my rack from getting rid of the Oppo 105, something needs to fill it.

Elliot... maybe a nice ceramic Buddha with a few post-its proclaiming his take on Desire would do the trick. (: