I need help with my Equipment addiction

I just beat mine, of course my kit could sound better, the key is to be happy with what you have, not what the man 'better' than you has

Listen to the music, and enjoy it, resist the urge to jump up and re position the speakers,realize that to get the last 10% corresponds to an expnonential $$$ increase in costs.

I also bought a season pass to the local symphony, hey cannot beat the sound of a 40 odd piece band playing 30 feet in front of you!

I've got a pair of reconditioned Allison Three's that you can buy - I'm sure there are 2 corners of your house that need speakers. Just walk through your house and identify the unspeakered rooms...........

Buy more music or spend more time away from the hot seat! Other wise you will ended up listening to the same tracks again and again to hear the difference between this power cable or that.

An obsessive personality is part of being an audiophile I fear. If you cannot escape the cycle, you may as well enjoy it. It could be worse...

Chadeffect pretty much nailed it.

I just spent collectively about a week dialing in speaker positioning, 1/8 of an inch at a time. Luckily the songs I use for reference are ones I still like, but they've pretty much stopped becoming music and more like research material.

Macdad - Pretty humourous thread but I'll make a serious suggestion. You're obviously a project- and goal-oriented person. Instead of trying to refine your system by a smidgen, why not spend that $800 for an preamp upgrade and buy a bad used piano and start picking out the music on it? That'll intensify your attention and enjoyment of the music way more than some audio tweak.

Or here's another idea: I suspect I have a similar personality as yours (as well as the same speaker brand) and what I do is set active listening projects for myself. A couple of months ago, I decided I had a ridiculously undeveloped knowledge of the Mozart operas. So, over the next 9-12 months, I'm going to listen extensively to many of them and really remedy that. So you don't know enough about 30s Delta Blues? The music of the band Triumph? Jacques Brel? Dive into it in an organized way.

There - two self-help ideas in a single post. Cheers.