Is there a ceiling limit on what you are willing to pay for an audio component?

I guess we're all fools here....well, all but one of us.

The fact that i learned how to not be a fool  anymore by being an active player and no more a passive consumer dont implicate that i am alone in this state here...

Then saying that my description EXCLUDE all other people and claiming that what i say implicate that all others are fool save me, is an erroneous judgement about my post and character ...

I had been a fool all my life in audio matter ... But i learned that to be more than a passive consumers is the road to freedom and knowledge by acoustic basic  EXPERIMENTS and experimenting with  creative simple devices ( i never bought tweaks) ... This experiments i created for me  dont make me the one and only wise dude here...

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Then dont put in my mouth  , what you feel in you and only in you...Dont confuse your feeling with my intention...

 Trying to communicate with others what i know for sure as i did dont implicate that i am the only wise guy here... There is many others more wise than me and with more experience in audio here , do you want name ?  😊

I guess we’re all fools here....well, all but one of us.

I have never felt like a fool with audio.
 

I have values… things that I value and things I do not. Until I was 50 I never bought a new car… had cheap used ones, would not pay a lot for tp, I would never buy drinks at a bar, but I had a new PC every two years and would put a very significant amount of my income into high end audio. Because a very small improvement in my audio system would bring me great pleasure. Like the really good bottle of Bordeaux that I would save up for and have once every month or two.

High end audio is not a fools game for people that understand themselves and their values, recognizing the pursuit is extremely complex, but can be amazingly rewarding. I love extremely ambiguous and complex problems…so Audiophilia is perfect.

I should have (and do have) other priorities, goals and hobbies that cost money. So it's easy to say, if I had $x, I would spend x/10 on audio. The flipside is diminishing returns. If I bought new speakers, significantly better ones than current ones, I would need a new room, which is not possible i my current house, so I would need a new house and then I would realize it's a whole lot of money that I could find much better uses for. I guess that defines me as a non-audiophile.

We think the same...Thanks for the post...

Audio for me is acoustic problems...It is an occasion to think in a new world of dancing waves and an occasion to see how  my brain compute space and how my unconscious brain live in a time zone of his own...

I have never felt like a fool with audio.
 

I have values… things that I value and things I do not. Until I was 50 I never bought a new car… had cheap used ones, would not pay a lot for tp, I would never buy drinks at a bar, but I had a new PC every two years and would put a very significant amount of my income into high end audio. Because a very small improvement in my audio system would bring me great pleasure. Like the really good bottle of Bordeaux that I would save up for and have once every month or two.

High end audio is not a fools game for people that understand themselves and their values, recognizing the pursuit is extremely complex, but can be amazingly rewarding. I love extremely ambiguous and complex problems…so Audiophilia is perfect.