Do you trust your system?

I trust my system more than my cats.  They like to run behind the system and pull wires loose.

Since LPS are way in the past for me, I am streaming.

I got my system.  Flying solo since I don't have a local dealer.  The good thing was I found good deals.  Every time I changed, sold, bought, moved something I kept saying.  Wow it sounds better.  Now, 2 1/2 yrs later, I think it is more dialed in.  I have not located others who have systems to compare to or been to a trade show.  The store I have been to made me realize I could spend a lot more for not much more. 

I haven't been to a small venue is sometime.  It shows me what instruments sound like before electronic modification.  I do find many recordings that make me wonder what the recording engineers are thinking of.  I have seen some concerts where I could not believe the sound quality.  Tool, Weather Report, George Benson, Chick Corea,  Recently a Dead and Company concert in an amphitheatre sounded fantastic.  Not loud, no earplugs, but clean wonderful sound.  And then just to prove it, they send out a couple bass notes during their "Drums" version that rocked your world, and mine.

Lately, I have been just listening to the music.  And I enjoy some of the newer 3D stuff.  But also some old school recordings.  So many voices have been messed with.

"I think that worrying about the performance of your system after you have dedicated the necessary effort to dial it in (which may take time) is a symptom of audio nervosa"

whart pretty much summed things up.

Get your setup optimized including the room. After that, play the best recordings possible and enjoy.

No cable, fuse or audiophoolery necessary. Not that there's anything wrong with that...

I have two systems. The first one I trust with my life. The second one I’m not so sure yet. The room is so different and I haven’t been able to dial it in yet. But either way, I’m done for a while buying amps and speakers.

All the best.

JD

audioguy85

There is NO system that sounds real...or is truth telling.

@whart i like that sentiment. I was always a music first person. All my budget went to discovering something new, finding a hidden gem.  As streaming became a reality, I invested that Music budget in better equipment. It’s certainly a luxury to have practically all of recorded music at your touch. It’s now easy to just run through a dozen recordings of a classical piece, seeing how each differ and which recording and performance connect with you. But the audio gear stuff is often a curse focusing on the artistic choices of the producer/ masterer to see if it syncs with your choice of gear. It seems the main topic here and in other audio blogs and magazines, so curious if it’s just me that finds it challenging.