Component(s) of your audio system that are "end game" and you don't have the urge to upgrade?

Don't plan of getting rid of my ProAc Response 2.5's and Moon 240i integrated.

 

Phono pre amps and speakers

 

Hard to say end game as in forever, but I don't plan to upgrade my Oppo BDP-205 (which I uses as my disc player and DAC) anytime soon; and I am content with my Blue Jeans interconnects.

 

All of 'em at present.

 

It certainly depends on how much space we end up with (retiring and major downsizing). If we have the room to accommodate a Turntable and associated gear, then yes. In the meantime I'm going to start Digitizing my Vinyl, just in case we don't.

 

My P6 is end game, it's as much as I want to spend for my love of vinyl, I will upgrade the cart from an Ortofon Blue to a Bronze or possibly Black if funds allow in the future.

As long as its supported my Node 2 and M-DAC combo are keepers as well.

Only thing I might change at some point are my B&W CM8's, got a bit of a love/hate relationship with them.

 

Wow, when you say downsizing -- you really mean downsizing!!

 

LOL Yes, my new listening space will be in a Family Room or hopefully a small Library. I've been spoiled by a dedicated room

 

I see.

Tell you what, right before you get the urge to drive the Modwright LS100 and PH9 down to Goodwill, send me a PM.

 

LOL, will do

 

It's taken me years and year, upgrade after upgrade, lots of $$$ and not just a little bit of luck to have evolved my system - as it stands now - into my final system. I feel no urge to upgrade, at all. Will I? Of course, I'll have too. Cartridges wear out. Disc players break. But short of "having" to replace a piece that no longer works, I won't be changing my turntable/arm, integrated amp, speakers, or cables. And depending on how long it lasts, my digital player either. I have found nirvana!

 

I can relate to this. Through the 70's, 80's and 90's I evolved different gear and systems -- then in the mid to late 90's due to marriage, kids, travel for my job I sold off or gave away most of my gear, bought a mid level AVR / HT system, and put my vinyl in storage.

A few years back I took the vinyl back out of storage and currently in the midst of that "evolution" you referred to. I think I am close -- I would like to end game my power amp, and maybe play around with one or two more phono pre's and a TT or two -- then cool my jets into a fast approaching retirement!

What this also means is there is going to be a gear sale in the next year or two of all the things that didn't make the final cut.

 

I honestly think I would like to be done spending money on hardware in the near future and focus on records (plus, there are supposedly other things in life that cost money...). But, let’s be realistic, at some point I am going to wonder if my speakers would benefit noticeably from more power, or if I would like to hear what tubes bring to the mix, or how much better a more expensive phono stage can sound... I think I’m much closer to the beginning of this thing than the end.

 

Have a McIntosh Mc2505 amp and a MX110Z Tuner/preamp that's currently getting the Audio Classic treatment. Those are both end game for me. I see a vinyl nirvana Thorens TD-160 in my future and speakers will come last. Given my finances and my love for those units, I see that as being my end game.

 

The journey, at least to me, can be just as fun if not funner (if that's a word) than the destination!!

As far as LP's -- I've managed to do a better job on those than gear -- when I took the LP's out of storage there were around 600, now a few years later I am pushing 4000. WTF?

Actually - I was able to score a couple of big collections for a "price I could not refuse" and I have cleaned up at local record stores and thrifts --- which I have religiously been combing now for a couple of years.

Plus of course a few hundred LP's I have bought new 180g pressings of........

If you are enjoying it, that is all that counts..................

 

I thought I saw you in the neighborhood the other day

 

At this point all my components, with the only target in the near future being speaker cable.

 

I think I'm past the "urge to upgrade" part of my life, I played that game for a little while and at some point I came to the conclusion that for how much money I'm willing/able to spend on audio components, I have probably about as good of stuff as I'm capable of.

At this point I'm probably more likely to downsize than upgrade.

 

LOL....!!!!

Is that a banjo I hear??

 

Don't never ever get rid of the HIIIs. I've first hand experience with that... Proud owner of Forte III, but damn, those Heresies can't be beaten when it comes to attack and soundstage IMHO.

 

Rega Planar 3 but I might upgrade the Rega Carbon cart someday - it works fine with the conical stylus on most of my (used) LPs. I did buy a elliptical replacement stylus made by Audio Technica for LP gear but haven't tried it yet. That might be all I really need.

 

Of course I don't feel the "need" to upgrade.
But I probably will because I like to try out new things..

 

Satisfied with what I have.

 

Get off the board now, or guaranteed that will change!

 

In my desktop system: the Harbeth P3ESR and the Marsh A400s amplifier. Each a great product, and they work well together.

In my main system, I don't have the urge to update anything right now, but hey, it's a hobby! Still, I don't know of any speakers that would fit the room better, and that I'd like more, than my Janszen Valentinas.