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If your down on your system…

If your down on your system, ask yourself, are you listening for the sound or for the music.  If the answer is for the sound, then try to do a mind bend, and forget the sound for a moment.  Take a deep breath and try to get into the music you’ve selected. After all, you’ve hopefully selected it for the music itself and not just for the sound.  That’s where the payoff is.
 I know this sounds simplistic and has been mentioned a lot in this forum, but it’s
a technique that works for me.

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mahgister
13,206 posts
 
We cannot forgot the sound if  we are under the threshold of a very bad timbre reproduction...

If we are slightly over it it become possible...

Alas! unlike when i was a child i dont want to simply listen to music but also to listen to it in the better possible conditions...

The OP is a spiritual person or a musician, for them it is more easy to forgot the sound...
aewarren
678 posts
 
I’ve been down on the farm, down on the beach, down on the corner, down on my luck, down in my basement and down on my neighbor. But I’ve never, ever been down on my system.
alucard19
364 posts
 
+1 MC listen to the music and appreciate it don't trey to hear things that are not there, no spoon just listen without the spoon in the mix.
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audioman58
4,226 posts
 
For myself going down in quality from $100 k systems to $30-$40 k for similar performance is the challenge .I am now semi retired 
and now have to plan for big purchases like loudspeakers next 
but even $20 k can take me over a year to save . You can get spoiled and circumstances for many reasons can change . It’s now a challenge ,at least I still rebuild quality Xovers and know  about modding which saves me  literally $1000 s .
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henry53
280 posts
 
Expectation bias is at play, when you hear something at $100,000 you expect to be completely whooped but my not be. I find if I listen to a system I cannot afford mine sounds better than I thought.
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