How good is good enough?

I'm confronted with this question often; but my answer is hopefully never. When that day comes, I'm no longer interested in audio.  But that doesn't mean I run out and buy more or different stuff.  I tweak my room, move my speakers, reconfigure my racks, reorganize my records and CDs, check that my stuff has the latest firmware, and on and on. 

To me the fun is in engaging with the environment and the equipment.  May I never be fully satisfied.

It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that bling. 

Some people here double down as if it was a game and ask and even thanks for never being satisfied ,😁 is it not incredible ?

It is like in front of a rational task to do and asking to do the same mistakes  without end ...

Myself i asked few years ago BEFORE my audio journey to reach the shore of acoustical satisfaction ... i did it as said my motto : minimal acoustical satisfaction at low cost ...

You know why ?

You cannot own thousand and thousand of albums and own a 100,000 bucks system at the same time and thousand of books if you are not "Dr." Bill Gates

I listen music with my gear not the reverse ...

And what is fun in this journey is not buying 50 amplifiers etc but to learn acoustic and learn the way to embed any system .. When the basic is done your audio journey is over ... Repeating the same mistakes without understanding anything is madness ... Or you are a billionnaire collecting high cost gear instead of music and books ...

Anybody with big money anyway know that room acoustic done by a pro acoustican designer cost more than a high end system .. Learn basic and do it yourself, even imperfectly done it will be amazing for S. Q. and as learnings ... And you will reach the shore of the minimal acoustic satisfaction which is bliss with music not a stop gap as obsessive collectors will point out ...

I have stopped thinking of things as good and bad.  I just try to enjoy.   All the speakers are good.  All the amps sound good.  Just different flavors of good.    Now it is just trying different things and enjoying the sound of a different amp or looking for details in the music, or finding new tracks.  

For me, "good enough" is when a system covers at least most of the full frequency range, with realistic soundstaging, imaging, dynamics and transparency and no obvious sonic flaws.  When I close my eyes it captures 90% or more of the live-music experience.

At a certain point the quality of the recordings that we enjoy is more of a limitation than our gear or maybe even our listening rooms.  I think a lot of pro recording gear, especially in times past, isn't of as high quality as audiophile gear.

I consider my current system good enough.  It's mainly reading forums like this one that even makes me consider upgrading.