What is Your End Game System?


How do you "measure" your end game system? Is it by budget, how much it cost? Is it by the luxuriousness of your build and room?

Is it by your components being either state of the art or unobtanium? Is it by the satisfaction you get when you are sitting in your listening chair?

What is your end game system and how do you know when you have reached it?

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I have never really had the idea of end game. I would go through an upgrade cycle about every seven years and reach as higher a level as possible. It wasn’t until near retirement I thought I should upgrade one last time before retiring. Which I did. But a couple years after retiring I was fortunate enough to upgrade again, doubling my investment and enormously improving the sound. I am very happy.

 

Will I upgrade again? I don’t know. Ask me in five years… if I’m still kicking.

 

 

My listening satisfaction reached almost capacity when I upgraded my room treatments (with the help of Anthony Grimani, Wilhelm Van Balen and The Dubstage studio owners) and upgraded my room correction to the Pro version of Audyssey. Since then it just seems right to my ears. Not "perfect" but just right.
I am curious about an all analog tube based system, also about getting a McIntosh streamer but not because I am not satisfied with what I have now. 

Amir and the kids at ASR have not told me what my end game system is yet.

Kidding quite content for now and if I die before I wake....darn happy with what I had.