Did a satisfaction threshold exist under 1000 bucks ?

I cannot say that i will abandon the quest for better sound... Then i guess i am like ghdprentice on this...😊

But lacking money i focussed in the past my attention on low cost improvements neglected generally by most...

Anyway i cannot say, even if like ,as hilde45, the contemplative view of Thoreau a lot, I cannot say that i could ever downgrade by spiritual and minimalistic ethical imperative; in the opposite the way the music experience became immersive now for me ,PASSED A SPECIFIC ACOUSTIC SATISFACTION TRESHOLD made very easy for me to forgot the never ending audiophile quest for better sound.... Music is so powerful with not too much limitations in the acoustic front now, that any upgrade appear to me even if possible if not useless, not necessary at all ... But saying that i am conscious too that tempted by some revolutionary product as the BACCH filters i will purchase it right now if i could do it...

It is my paradoxical attitude...No need of anything but open to some REAL upgrade...

Very interesting suggestion... Thanks...

I would like to try it but my small speakers are  self powered.... And i just discovered that active speakers will be my next move ....

I listen intensively on my headphone because they are top and very hard to beat...

I listen casually on the small self powered  speakers without feeling any deep lacking  even in the bass ( i had no deep bass for sure)

Would love to try the new Fosi V3 with a pair of large high quality high efficiency speakers that I do not own currently. I would go in with very high expectations.

 

If anyone with large good quality high efficiency speakers would like to try that, I’d be interested in the results. Could a $140 Class D amp be a reasonable alternative to a 10X or more pricey tube amp that would normally be assigned the job? Inquiring minds want to know! The Fosi V3 with upgrade power supply is only $140 on Amazon and easily returnable.

I never try to downgrade my system, but I am continuously looking for ways to improve it mainly by taking advantage of real technological advancements that always happen over time and that can deliver more for less.

"I would like to try it but my small speakers are self powered.... And i just discovered that active speakers will be my next move ."

Aren't powered speakers the same as active speakers? Am I missing something?

In the past few months I've sold off an incredibly good dac, an amazing phono stage, and now I'm without vinyl for the foreseeable future until I managed to find another really good photo stage when I have the money. Right now my system consists of- all used - aragnarok 2 integrated, and Oppo 105, a Gumby, and reference 3A decapo speakers. Witty until it's time as a beautiful VPI turntable with a Hana cartridge. Take away the last two components and you have used a system that sounds absolutely incredible for about 1500. So no, it's not $1,000 but it's pretty close and truthfully, take away the Gumby DAC and just use the oppos on board DAC, and you would have a system for about a thousand that sounds phenomenal. And yes, I've had systems that measure in the five figures total and truthfully this one sounds to my ears just as good.