How does one get off the merry-go-round?

For me getting off merry go round is having enough experience to paint decent broad strokes as to what you feel you would want.

Simple things like box counts, aesthetics, matching brands of cables can also play a role into some decisions.

I got into this thinking it was always about SQ and SQ only but sometimes the smaller things that you felt you would not care about comes up in reality.

Example, I prefer to have as little box counts as possible, so if there is a box in my chain, it yielded enough importance to me.

At the end of the day everyone will be different since getting off the merry go round also means that one has to be appreciative and thankful for what they go and at at PEACE with it.

It is human nature to always want the newest shiny toy.

Get the gold ring ASAP!!

It would be a great service to me if I would have two systems. Onr for building stuff and experimentation, and the other a 'regular' but decent system not to mess with, but to enjoy music. 

 Most of my system I have built, and there are times that it sounds beyond what I thought it could. Then a demon enters, or I build yet another amp or speakers, etc. and the start of trouble begins. So, my merry go round is about me liking to build (most of the time) and ending up with anything fantastic to it's got a problem.

 The disease for me is relentlessly building what I may not even need. Perhaps the cure is to go back to building furniture. 

 Being dissatisfied is not a good place to end up more than once.