HOW DID YOU END UP WITH YOUR DREAM SYSTEM?

@bassbuyer i understand. Right now I’m listening and I’m in a great place. 

Having been retired for over 4 years now, I recently just decided to go for it. My reasoning is that life is way too short, and my hearing is still good enough to enjoy and justify the financial investment. This year I upgraded my speakers, integrated amplifier, CD transport, power conditioner, audio rack, and also added bass traps. My “End Game” system is not my dream system and is modest when compared to many of the amazing Virtual Systems on Audiogon, but I feel that I have finally achieved sonic contentment which has been eluding me all these years. I can’t peel myself away from my system and it’s paying huge dividends right now during our typical dark and damp Pacific Northwest winter.

https://www.audiogon.com/systems/11787

• @mksun one thing I have learned is my music brings me joy. Also you can achieve your dream sound . Yes I gave an expensive system. My speakers are 14k my dac is 35k. My amp 20k streamer 5k subs (2) 4k each. 10k cabling. Around 90k. But you still can get a very pleasing sound being smart and knowledgeable. 

• @mksun one thing I have learned is my music brings me joy. Also you can achieve your dream sound . Yes I gave an expensive system. My speakers are 14k my dac is 35k. My amp 20k streamer 5k subs (2) 4k each. 10k cabling. Around 90k. But you still can get a very pleasing sound being smart and knowledgeable. 

As I mentioned near the close of the last record
This record you are now playing
Is another example of the Completion Backward Principle
If you can possibly manage the time
Please play both sides at one meeting 

Some already know my stance in this reverie, but some expansion of my local focal locus in this universe....whichever one it may be....🤷‍♂️ *laugh*

Long ago, I dispersed a rather nice collection of bits so's not to drag them about, doomed to dust in storage for an unknown span.  Kept a couple of items that I knew then they'd been and would remain the 'odd but very useful' items that would be difficult if not improbable to replace...

Upon reaching a landing more 'permanent', time spent settling the dust and an income stream, it was obvious that to return to that audiostrata would require +/- 2X$ to do so......which has repeated itself in the interim a few times, enough to make SOTA  SOOR: " Sota' Out Of Reach."

One could consider that a kick in the cojones' , but in stead took on the not-so-lost-'lean can be mean' scheme....likely for less than the lucky few will spend for a cable....yeah, one.

In same recent return to the flay, I recalled a fascinating stumble into a pair of new Ohm F's very long ago...about the same time I ran into the fledgling ESS brand prior to the Heils' which happened not long after....own 4 of the large drivers...

I make my own walsh drivers these days...spend too much time enjoying than I ought, but whattya say at the end of the day.... ;)

Enjoy where you are until you don't....

Watch for those post- holidaze ads...and have a wonderful Christmas. *5's *