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Don't do anything!

A couple months ago I posted a question on the forums that I was looking for the next level of imaging from my system and was contemplating better speakers.  As per usual there were many responses of varying degrees advice.

Since then I have done nothing to pursue this next level.  The reason for my inaction - my system is breaking.  What I mean by that is I had made a few upgrades to my system  - which were new power cable for the amp, newer speaker cables and finally a cartridge that has about 150 hrs on it. All of these changes are moving from the break in stage into what they can do for better sound.  So now my system is maturing and delivering on what I am looking for.  So the moral of the story is - leave it alone, stop tweaking.  Let your system evolve.

Thanks for the advice fellow music lovers!

polkalover
mahler123
3,324 posts
 

OP

 

It’s probably your brain acclimating to the new sounds.  Does it matter as long as you are content, although I suspect that the upgrade itch will soon bite again 

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normb
168 posts
 

@polkalover 

Sitting here starting my second cuppa coffee mulling over your post.

Just thinking about how much I enjoyed listening to music through a six transistor japanese pocket AM radio back in 1964 and if it would still sound as good today as it did then.

Those germanium bipolar transistors should be broken in by now 

I'm sure it would need a new battery...  But which would sound better, Everready, Duracell, Ray-o-Vac, something Lithium?

 

[Caution: the preceding comment - or even this one - not for consumption by the satirically -challenged nor irony-deficient audiophile]

knotscott
921 posts
 

There are variables - weather/atmospheric pressure, temperature, voltage swings, mood swings, allergies, fatigue, stress, etc.... 

deep_333
1,386 posts
 

Your central nervous system is burning in. All kinds of psychoacoustical snd physical adaptations are occurring. Don't do anything. Continue to burn in, adapt and become one with your rig.

A coupla months from now, one may wonder...Where's Polkalover? And the answer will become obvious... he's in the wires...he is in his cartridge...he's inside his tweeters...he is in his amp's power supply....he is everywhere...a logic defying malleable ethereal being is he.

boxcarman
415 posts
 

@shtinkydog...Yes, you are spot on.  About once a month everything I throw at it sounds crappy.  FM radio, LP's. streaming, whatever,  Time to find something else to do.

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