Are You Happy?

No system, regardless of the cost, is really going to produce any long-term happiness. Perhaps the exception,
though, are those times of worship and praise where a good
system can seem to ignite a passion that otherwise might
be more difficult to appreciate.

Speaking of wine, My system sounds much better after a bottle of that MD 20-20. Sorry, I couldn't resist
(Also ducking and running for cover)

Art, tongue in cheek, I hope. Cheers!

Artemus - my condolences to you for your tastes in wine, "sorry couldn't resist". Speaking of wine or any alcoholic beverage for that matter can't improve on a really compressed bright digital recording. I don't know of any recording studio that did it worse than Motown. Sound quality certainly wasn't a criteria, but I sure do love a lot of this music, part of my formulative teen years.

Just got a CD of the Four Tops recently and really in truly will not listen to it again on my system. It just makes my ears ring. It is without a doubt the lousiest recording in my collection. Ah I might listen again but the volume will be very low. Usually a bad recording doesn't bother me too much if I love the music.

I have about $3000 in hardware and a similar amount in software. I'd say 80% sounds good, 10% sounds amazing and 5% not so good and 5% unlistenable.

For once I'm glad I don't have more money. Sounds like it makes people really unhappy with their systems. This seems to spill over into the threads on Agon.