How does one get off the merry-go-round?


I'm interested in hearing from or about music lovers who have dropped out of the audio "hobby." I don't mean you were content with your system for 6 weeks. I mean, you stood pat for a long time, or--even better--you downsized...maybe got rid of your separates and got an integrated.

(I suppose if you did this, you probably aren't reading these forums any more.)

If this sounds like a cry for help, well, I dunno. Not really. I'm just curious. My thoughts have been running to things like integrated amps and small equipment racks and whatnot even as I continue to experiment and upgrade with vigor (I'm taking the room correction plunge, for example.) Just want to hear what people have to say on the subject.

---dan
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Once you have decided to flee the merry-go-round: attach yourself to a sensible woman, one intolerant of aesthetic or other excess; seek a career keeping you on the move -- now nowhere to build a rig or lend your ear to proper gear --; force and circumstance failing, renounce, give your toys and coin away; in the absence of means no merry-go-round will prevail. Notwithstanding this, be free - enjoy!
if you enjoy your music system with the least expensive interconnects and speaker wire...congratulations,you are on terra firma again.
Be satisfied with what you have. If you keep worrying there is something better out there or something is wrong with your system, you'll never be done with it.
I don't think you ever do?? I keep telling my wife and friends I am done after each upgrade, all I get is a little smile and hear sure you are?? I recently tried to down size and I did for about 4 weeks,and swore up and down I WOULD never get rid of my Pass Labs X250 when I bought it, well 9 months later it is on it's way out.
I agree with Btstrg, i dont think you really get off the merry go round. You lay low for a couple of months or years then you get the itch to upgrade yet again.