HAVE YOU ARRIVED AT YOUR FINAL SYSTEM AND WHAT’S IN IT? WHAT ARTIST IS YOUR GO TO?

My system is so satisfying that it is final...

Active speakers with 6 modifications i made and i place them in their acoustic corner : M-Audio AV40..

Dac Nos Battery TDA 1543 by Christophe Mariac...

My main system :

AKG K340 modified and optimized  , Hidizs AP 80 pro battery dac ...

Sansui Alpha 607i as amplifier for them ...

The last time i tried to upgrade appeared as  an error...

One of the best dedicated headphone in the world never beat my Sansui headpone out ...

why ?

Because an electrical synergy is not an acoustical experienced synergy ...

You can have a measured well done electrical synergy and a bad acoustical synergy ...

A good acoustical synergy implicate an electrical synergy but an electrical synergy dont necessarily implicate an acoustical synergy ...

it is especially true with an hybrid headphone with inside an acoustic device and a dual acoustic chamber...

i will replace a defectuous component perhaps but i will not "upgrade"... the reason is simple , i am on the minimal threshold of acoustic satisfaction , to go on the optimal acoustic satisfaction threshold , i will go from 700 bucks system to over 10,000 bucks at least perhaps 15,000 replacing each part ... It is meaningless because the distance between these two acoustic tresholds is less than the distance from regular not well embedded system and really well synergetical and well embedded one generally ...

Those of you with costly system , dont think i am deaf .... i was able to mechanically tune my room... Try it ... 😁

@idcabinfever I notice many of those who have declared their system "done" have relatively low end systems while those of us with less ability to control capital expenditures know that we will probably keep upgrading.  😎

@idcabinfever

The journey is increasingly expensive and at some point most of us learn to like where we are.

Nice to know I’m not the only one for whom this is true. ;o)

A low cost system is not NECESSARILY an acoustically low end system...

If you were more informed you will know that the AKG K340 was the best headphone of his days with the top Stax...

The Sansui alpha is a top amp. even for today...

Is there better ? Yes...

But going from the minimal acoustic satisfaction threshold to the optimal one cost a LOT of money and more than money : you need specific acoustic knowledge ...Money dont necessarily buy good sound , inform yourself ...

People having money and knowledge are not so numerous, even here ...

And changing the goal post by upgrades is not so easy as purchasing new electronic design as plug and play as many thought here ...

At least i know exactly why i dont need to upgrade even with a better component ...And i understand exactly why i am satisfied and it is not by frustration at all and not because i accepted my system status as low fi.... It is not that at all ...I dont judge with price tag as you seems to do...

I own one among the best low cost system of the world and i created it  and optimize it by the way ...😊

Purchasing is not understanding ...

Marketting is not acoustic and psycho-acoustic knowledge , buying is not knowing etc ...

My post was necessary answering your post because beginners coming here and reading your common place fallacy that higher cost is always  better and paying more is enough ,  will be informed that the owner manual of an upgrade costly component dont replace experiments and working embeddings controls especially in acoustic ...

😊😉😁

I notice many of those who have declared their system "done" have relatively low end systems while those of us with less ability to control capital expenditures know that we will probably keep upgrading. 😎

@mahgister

And changing the goal post by upgrades is not so easy as purchasing new electronic design as plug and play as many thought here ...

I think it’s a safe bet that most of us here understand that changing components often results in having to rebalance the system.

Purchasing is not understanding ...

No, but buying the wrong gear can lead to understanding. At least, this has been true in my case! "Learning the hard way" is not optimal but it is (if we are paying attention) effective!