HOW DID YOU END UP WITH YOUR DREAM SYSTEM?

@grislybutter because that's when you dream.  Sorry, lame joke on my part.

@mglik i definitely understand. I went from tubes to to my solid state all Class A Infigo gear and I have never looked back.  I get the speed and clarity of solid state with the musicality of tubes. Yes it was very expensive but it’s worth every penny. Hearing every foot tapping note in clarity and musicality.  Enjoy my man! If it makes you smile do it. 

@gordon It's a good one 

I got into the audio insanity early, in High School. Worked during High School and college and bought the nicest system I could at the time that included KEF 104/2 speakers, Adcom and Denon components .  Held onto that system for 30+ years doing life stuff.  Now that I’m about to retire, and we sold our second home, I have spent the past two years feeding the audiophile habit researching, buying, selling to get to my 90% system (it’s never 100% in this hobby!).  It a fun, rewarding, frustrating and sometimes infuriating hobby, but there is nothing like listening to fabulous, high quality music while having your favorite cocktail in your comfortable listening recliner 😎

I finally got my dream system which is the world best sound system, but I am not happy. Why? Because it sounds bad and unlistenable. What? The world best sound and "unlistenable" don’t make sense.

The sound is a relative thing. Like all house wives, they don’t like your expensive and beautiful sound system. Why? because they are used real natural sounds only. They even love noisy music (but natural sound) at a local live-band cafe. To your wife, your un-natural audio sound (like a left speaker sound in below video) is worse than dog’s barking sound.          Compare natural and unnatural sound.

Like above, this is my situation.

Listen to my video at 2:30 (my voice).

Then listen to PINK at 4:10.

Then listen to my voice at 2:30.

Then listen Holy Cole at 5:40.

Listening Pink and Holy Cole (recorded w/ unnatural sound mics) hurts my ears. Yes. I can concentrate and listen those music like I did 10 years ago, but I have to almost destroy my brain, my eyes, my ears, my nose, and even my clean conscious too to hear them like before. You don’t know what those unnatural hi-fi sounds do to you. I don’t want to do that again. It’s a health hazard.

I’ll only listen my recordings until more natural sound recordings using my Wavetouch microphones are available. Alex / Wavetouch audio