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

This thread is nearing its eighth birthday and still remains unresolved for many including, presumably, its author. So, is there an answer?

I'm not rotating like I used to - certainly I've slowed the circles down - but I also have unresolved issues with my system. There are no areas of glaring dissatisfaction. There are no important reasons why I couldn't just stop right now. But there remains a curiosity about what could be improved, about how I might achieve the same results from less complexity or less investment. Or how to refine what I have just a little more.

It all leads me ultimately to conclude that I will never be completely satisfied and I may as well just call it a day and live with what I have. In the final analysis (had to fit that word in here somehow) the problem really is with me and not the system. My expectations are driving this madness. They're the cause of perpetual grinding about what to do next or whether or not to do anything at all.

Ultimately it seems that until we transfer the focus from our systems to ourselves, we will be treating the wrong patient.

Wouldn't that be deliciously ironic? Lets start an audio buyers recovery meeting here. We could combine it with a weight watchers type program and score points for selling equipment and lose points for buying.

We would all tell our stories and say how long it had been since our last purchase and how we had gotten started innocently enough in this self-destructive behavior in the first place.

No fair blaming The Beatles.

Since I last posted in Oct 2001, I've went thru a whole lot of audiophile stuff, but I'm NOT an audioholic! Actually I'm probably in denial, though the last component I bought was 19 months ago and I've dropped my subscription to audiophile rag's, and I'm no longer reading internet audio rag's either.

I've started a subscription to a new classical music magazine, and am thinking of a few others music magazines as well. Bought lots of CD's lately. Think I've overcome, at last, any interest in going to SACD's & players. Now if I could just convince myself that I couldn't get a better result with a new amp (the sound of which I'm having a hard time describing) I would stop coming here to check the Ads and my withdrawal would be about complete.

I'm not an audiophile, I'm not and audiophile, I'm not an audiophile!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pray for me. :-)

Newbee, I am praying for you....and me too. My first reply was in 06/01, and now I am under the impression that the answer is NOT AVAILIBLE. One cannot get off the merry-go round, unless, as Cyclonicman suggests, one gets off the merry-go-round and on the ferris wheel.

The only chance you MIGHT have is to avoid all print media, any Hi-Fi shows, and ALL internet audio website's. Maybe then you can escape....however, if you are here, responding to threads, there is no hope whatsoever.

Cheers,
John