Are you at this point??

Every time I think i'm semi satisfied, I find something that seems to improve my listening experiance - I finally got some planers after the Vandersteens that were after the B&W's that I thought I could live with a long time. I tried Hertiage Klipsch's,Ribbons, Thiels, before that.However,I do beleive I'm done using a CDP though - hard drive based music is the way to go (I wonder if people will look back at CD's like they do Vinyl)

I feel that way every morning. By late in the afternoon I start thinking something can be improved. If I can just learn to pend my tendency to look for improvements 'til the next morning, or stop listening late in the afternoon, I'd probably be in hog heaven!

Nice stuff you have there. Particularily those speakers. I'm envious but financially constrained. Arn't you tempted just a bit by their latest speaker? Naw, probably not even curious. :-)

I'm done as one can be. I'm to the point where I don't think I can make any significant improvements short of adding on to my house and building a larger room. I still play around with stuff that makes minor improvements but I feel like I'm running up against the limitations of the recordings more than the limitations of my system; and that is a good place to be.

BTW my previous CDP was the CDX2 that I was running off of batteries, which to my ear was much better than the internal supplies. I never tried it with the XPS2 but I had it for a few years and it was the best of many that I tried. The Altmann I have now is to my ear a much more musical device. The Naim is very good, and perhaps bests the Altmann in retrieving that last little bit off the disc, but the Altmann gives up very little in that area. The Altmann is big and dynamic and the Naim polite and restrained. Probably at this level a matter of taste and the type of music you prefer but in my system and with the recordings I prefer the Altmann is so much more musical I could not go back. It also costs less than 1/5 of your Naim but you will need to add either a transport or go to a computer based system. Just when you thought you were done ...............

The next step is painful $$$ and I'm sure you have been through tons of equipment as I have...and you know that you could quickly make your nice sound rig sound bad and then chase the audiofool rabbit of equipment changes again.

Pretty funny about the scanning.. it's a disease and your not alone...

You need to take some time to enter your system and post some pictures so we can check out excellent system.

I am done for today.