i must say that about the only time i heard a night and day difference after an upgrade was the first time i bought good speakers (very musical 2-ways from long dead German company). they were all of $750 at the time or so.
ever since, i think i have made more or less rational decisions - but the increase in sonic quality went by the law of diminishing returns. i also once could have sworn those green pens improved sound quite dramatically, and my fav CDs (in storage) all have that carefully applied green outer and inner edge :-) since my first decent system (Denon 1290 CD player, use Luxman integrated, the inevitable Technics SL1210 turntable (still in storage) and a TEAC 8030 cassette deck i worshiped), i have only upgraded major components 2 times. not bad for a 25 year interest in audiophilia. once when i moved into a big house, and blew a lot of money into a system that made me smile for countless hours for over 14 years, so not a bad return on investment), and then after divorce, when i moved into a *small* place and i had to downsize... and i love the little system i have now for less than a third of the cost of my former system. my only area where i admit total suckerdom and guilt are headphones - be it over the head, or in ear, i have a ton of them. luckily i never blow more than $700 on them, but it does add up, and honestly the first good set i bought still sounds absolutely fantastic. not sure why i do that, but after confession here in audiophiles anonymous i may be on the road to recovery. oh and i also once spend a lot on a stupid cartridge for my turntable that didn't even fit right and sounded indistinguishable (and quite possibly worse) than the standard, $200 Ortofon i had had forever. :-) i have my former high end system in storage, and my attempts at selling the pieces on Audiogon or Ebay show that any dollar we spend in audiophilia is gone, there is nothing like a decent return on investment :-) other than that, i enjoy moderate amounts of irrationality here and there, but when i am happy with something it tends to last forever and i don't muck around with it, even though i stay current on what's new and such. ...pablo Server: Virtual Machine running Ubuntu 12.04 + LMS 7.7.3 on VMware Player System: SB Touch --optical->- Benchmark DAC2HGC --AnalysisPlus Oval Copper XLR->- NAD M22 Power Amp --AnalysisPlus Black Mesh Oval->- Totem Element Fire Other Rooms: 2x SB Boom; 1x SB Radio; 1x SB Classic-> MusicalFidelity M1PWR -> Totem DreamCatcher Computer audio: workstation --USB->- audioengine D1 -> Grado PS500e ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pablolie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3816 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103238 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
