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

I realize this a very old thread. However, since I'm probably older than most of you, I thought I'd contribute. :)

I select gear that is the best I can afford and keep it for a long time. That is hardly to say I've spent huge amounts of money on equipment. My all tube electronics are excellent vintage MFA, which I've had upgraded as my budget permits.

Once I've experimented tweaking my system, particularly speaker placement, I concentrate on the music, not the equipment.

Once I've gotten my system dialed in, I listen, not to the gear, but to the music.

MUSIC.

After all, isn't that what this hobby is all about?

Unsubscribe to all audio magazines, do not visit audio internet forums, and stay out of high end stores!

Buy more music, and enjoy your system as is!

Only buy new equipment, when the existing can not be repaired!

Good advice Don. I can't got to my dealer without buying something. My wife calls it the "crack house"!

Great post Greginnh ! How true. how true , a grand here a grand there -LOL.

Don_c55, I think it is even easier today.

Since even the few remaining dealers will soon be gone, most audio paper magazines will also be gone, and electronic magazines will be available for all perspectives and will disagree on everything, and everything will be no better than MP3, and finally most will want music 24/7, all you really need to do is wait.

Furthermore since only the top 1 percent will have discretionary income, you might as well get off the merry-go-round. High end audio will be like yachts. How many of your contemporaries have musical systems in their living rooms now? It used to be well over half of mine did. Now I see maybe one out of ten older friends have any and they are old ARs and receivers with lamp cords to the speakers.