Am I right for this forum?

A smart $3,000 system is superior to a dumb $30,000 system. Or certainly an even more obtuse 300k stack of gear with cryo everything but bad speaker placement. In this hobby.. these scenarios are easily entirely possible (especially if you're listening in a normal sized room).

If you can see through the nonsense and still enjoy music via your system.. 'Bob' is your proverbial uncle. My speakers are 25 years old.. I've an amp I still listen to a lot that's 30yo (and they both were considered budget gear back then). The rewarding challenge is getting more by spending less.. buying used.. seeing though all the metaphorical superfluous cosmetic veneer. This isn't politics.. it's about helping us all find our way and enjoying ourselves without going broke.

if that resonates.. chime in.. don't worry about it.

It didn’t take me long to realize that, in the 4 years I’m been coming to this forum, there is a wide range of money spent on one system versus another.  As the old saying goes, “One person’s ceiling is another person’s floor”, or they don’t even live on adjacent floors!  Also, some have been at this for decades and sampled many pieces of equipment.  This is especially evident when someone asks for recommendations and people respond with equipment names (let alone models) that I have never heard of.  
 

I know that my knowledge is very limited, so I end up reading, or skinning through the comments, hoping to learn a bit and knowing I cannot be much help to the OP.  I still come here to read, but I’m less inclined to post because I don’t think I can offer much compared to other members.  

So we both have something in common. We don’t feel we belong and we have not posted our virtual system.

I recently described my system but no pictures.

It’s really cool you and your family Play piano. And then you play cello so that means you have a very calm soul. I’m guessing you don’t have a TV set in your listening room. Not sure you’re listening to YouTube very much. I find it absolutely remarkable how much stuff is there and the sound Quality can be very good

So does this mean someone’s playing a piano all the time in your house because everybody’s got to practice a little here and there. I played trumpet when I was younger and how awful that must’ve been to listen to when I practised.

Anyway I think you should post your system since you have all these glorious pictures you speak about. Time to immortalize your existence. You will be in great company.

FWIW, I composed a LONG reply to these very many responses to my original message—but something was wrong with my account status when I tried to post it, I went to my account to fix the problem, and lost the entire thing. Took me well over an hour, and I’m kind of busy with other things right now, so I didn't try to re-write it. Of course, I contacted the admin to see if it could be recovered, but it couldn’t; a glitch of some kind on their end, apparently.

Anyway...I will again make my Virtual System public. It was for a few days, then I hid it again. But emergingsoul asked, as did someone else a couple of pages back, so what the heck. BTW, emergingsoul: I wish I had "a very calm soul" (Leonard Cohen wishes for the same in his next life; I forget which song). But you’re right about not having a TV where my main system is, and where our instruments are played. We’re lucky to have a separate room (a "media room" and library) for the TV—and a second audio system there.

Never write your reply here directly... I am sorry OP but  we all had lived through that... 😁

If not you will loose them time to time as i did...

I wrote longer replies on a notebook then i copy them here ...