I am so happy.....

Audiophiledom is a journey, not a destination. To me, by definition an audiophile is someone who appreciates great sounding music produced on high quality equipment and has a passion for improving that sound on a continuing basis. The level of obsession or frequency of tinkering varies by the individual, but it is never done. There is always what's next. There is no end point - there may be plateaus, which may last for quite a while, but if you are an audiophile, you never stop wondering what if?????

Audiophiledom is a journey, not a destination.

The journey has a destination and a final end point for those who know acoustic...

The others frantically change gear in an obsessive never ending unsatisfaction..Or deal stoically with unsatisfaction or are happy  with music and a not very good sound...

 Now I listen music without dreaming about  an upgrade...My speakers/room tuning is optimal....I dont need anything else...

My actual system has 8 years in my room... But i learned enough acoustic only during  the last 2 years...It is not simple matter...But it is now done...

All in all peanuts costs... The journey make well more sense with low cost and a ratio S.Q. /price over the roof... This is the GOAL...

But i never wanted to listen my favorite music WITHOUT an acoustical relative perfection learning  stoically to deal  with a low level quality sound ... i wanted audiophile relative top level experience...That was my goal...At the lower cost...I succeeded...

I am very happy for you!  Happiness with your system is all that matters! Congrats!

Good for you! Happy Listening. 🎼👌🏼

SNS expressed some of what I think about regarding this:  Each of us hears differently and have different preferences.  While I like bass, some of my younger friends go overboard, in my opinion. They think my systems lack Ooomp! that their systems provide with thundering bass (I think we have all been beside the car in stopped traffic that literally vibrates body panels from the thud of large subwoofers and big amps — what a headache!).   I prefer more delicacy in the music, so I can hear nuances and not just bang, bang, bang!  I think it’s true when people say, “Some distortion people like”.  And we are all different.

I have questioned if I ever could hear as well as some other people — not just now when I’m older, but even when I was young.  It was not my ability to hear but my ability to discern.     Someone would say, “Do you hear that?  I can’t hear that on those other speakers, but I can hear it through these speakers.”  And I often wasn’t sure what they meant or were hearing, though I just nodded and smiled, “Yeah, man!”  I could go to a high-fi showroom and the salesperson would play something and stand there with that satisfied grin, reciting all the statistics and accolades, and Im thinking, “I wonder if these would sound good in my less-than-optimal room, or if I could even tell how they really sound.”  I so envy the people that have supreme confidence in their abilities to perceive better-than from lesser-than.