Are you satisfied with your hifi system?

In my case, I would say that there is always room for improvement, love my speakers, Dynaudio Contour 1.3S but do not care about my phono stage, ProJect phono box DS plus.

 

Satisfied in that it serves its purpose, but if my budget and space were increased I'd definitely do something different.

 

Love mine. I guess there's always room for improvement but I've got the sound I was looking for and versatility. Infact right now my 500c is hooked up so I can use the glorious tube tuner for Christmas music and NPR and the great phono stage with a mono setting for my old holiday LPs.

 

Satisfied? I'd say it's my favorite material possession, consumes the majority of my free time and discretionary budget. I like what I have but I'm always interested exploring.

 

I definitely need different speakers, and thus a matching power amp.

 

+1, exactly.

 

I have a nice sounding system and I picked it out myself. I was limited to my budget however and it is in a room where it was selected for. So if I were to move to another space and or have a much larger budget, I'd want to start over. It is relative after all.
-Bill

 

Not satisfied yet, but I'm getting closer...

 

i am happy enough; i would love to hear a high end deck in my system but its not going to happen. Love the one you're with. My room sucks BTW

 

In my old age (62) I think I can say I really am satisfied with my system. I suspect my declining hearing is probably as responsible as the components in my system, but i enjoy it as much now as I ever have.

 

Like many I'm sure, I'm a bit obsessive and compulsive when it come to this stuff. If I listen to anything for too long of time, I start to get unsatisfied. I find that having a second system really helps. It gives me a flavor of something different and helps to recalibrate my reference point.

 

22 years later? Very much so...

 

Yes, very satisfied. It's as good as it's going to get, given the limitations I have set myself (I don't want a dedicated listening room; I don't want room treatments everywhere; I don't want my sitting room looking like a hifi shop, with racks of amplifiers and cables on risers snaking everywhere).

 

It's worthless because it can't make dinner or keep the place clean.

 

So, you'd trade?
-Bill

 

Satisfied? Yes. Been good to me for years.

-BUT-

The powered subwoofer is 10+ years old now. And when it’s amp eventually fails I’ll have to upgrade to something with a 15” or 16” driver. Darn.

 

It's great at music playback, but a lousy wife.

 

A cruel mistress no doubt.
-Bill

 

In a happy place with my set up for now.

I still grin at the sonic goodness it delivers.

Maybe an OCD tweak or check/recheck/recheck ( ) now and then, but for the most part its set up just the way I like it.

 

I go in and out of hobbies.. seems every few years one raises to the top while others take a back seat.

I was sponsored and drag raced vintage Harley’s for a few years..still have a bike although covered in dust at the moment.. I played in bands on and of through the years, I still have a gob of gear. I also have a vintage Mustang.. Seems I go back and forth with my money and time.

I guess with Audio.. HT and two channel I’m happy with what I’ve spent. In truth I have made money when I swap gear almost every time. I dont buy unless its a good buy. It has to be on the very low end of the average sale cost, I always buy used.

 

As it happens I just got through a major upgrade process in my system: replacing use of the phono section of my trusty Hovland HP-100 preamp with a new Tavish Design Adagio stand-alone phono preamp which in itself was a nice upgrade. And then for the past month or two I've been experimenting and replacing the stock tubes with some rather exotic upgrades in each position that really rocketed the sound to yet another level (of realism).

So yeah, at present I'm very satisfied with my music system and will now once again continue to concentrate on music and cleaning and listening to the massive accumulation of used LPs I've been scooping up for years, secure in the knowledge they'll sound the best they can.

 

Very satisfied. Heading into the cold months I'll spending more time with it but it's an absolute joy to use.

 

I like my system just fine, but hate that I have to enjoy it in a tiny room.

The next house will have a better room for hifi; I was not concerned about that when we bought this house.

 

There is a certain level of crazy you have accepted when you think about moving to accommodate listening to music. I know because I did exactly that one year ago tomorrow. Closing on a house, moving and in my case, renovations, is nearly hell on earth. But....I was running out of room for records and a dedicated room does make a difference.

 

I get the same way. Although I am entirely satisfied with my system. I will swap out different components just to have differences in the system's sound signatures.

There are two very different large towers that serve as front mains and are selectable via an A/B speaker selector switch.

Plus there are three systems in the room. I usually have at least two SS systems running most of the time. In the late afternoon or evening, I usually light up the A7's with an all tube power chain. I rotate the various tube amplifier's that I have on that system as well.