I have now been to listen to six different systems at wammers homes and one wammer has come to mine and I had a few thoughts to share.
Firstly everyone should make an effort to get out an meet other wammers. Everyone that I have met has been kind and welcoming. And every visit was educational and thoroughly worthwhile beyond HiFi stuff; and it helps us connect better.
The reason why this is in 2 channel and not in bake-offs is because firstly it will be more visible here and secondly there is a 2 channel discussion to be had.
Each wammer was happy with their system. Each system sounded great to me. But each also sounded very different to each other. And also they all sounded different to mine. Three of the systems were serious money, more than I would spend today, and it got me thinking. Why and how should anyone upgrade (given that’s what most of this forum is about) or actually not to change anything at all.
Maybe upon listening to someone else’s system there is a lightbulb moment; and that could either confirm your existing path or open a new one. I have sometimes commented about components saying I like this thing about item A and something else about item B and if only I could find an item that did everything well. And it was the same with these systems. I liked various aspects of all but don’t think that any one system was better than the other at *everything*. This may or not not be your experience but it was mine.
And it got me thinking. I heard a great saying once: that if perfection could be achieved that it wouldn’t actually be worth having. Maybe the perfect system is impossible for most people, and if so, then why bother with changing anything? And if you already like your system then maybe don’t drastically change direction as you may find that it’s just different and not better. Or maybe do as some on here have done just improve within the brands that you already really like.
And so it seems to me that making any recommendations to anyone who’s system you haven’t heard is really rather difficult. But what do you think?
Firstly everyone should make an effort to get out an meet other wammers. Everyone that I have met has been kind and welcoming. And every visit was educational and thoroughly worthwhile beyond HiFi stuff; and it helps us connect better.
The reason why this is in 2 channel and not in bake-offs is because firstly it will be more visible here and secondly there is a 2 channel discussion to be had.
Each wammer was happy with their system. Each system sounded great to me. But each also sounded very different to each other. And also they all sounded different to mine. Three of the systems were serious money, more than I would spend today, and it got me thinking. Why and how should anyone upgrade (given that’s what most of this forum is about) or actually not to change anything at all.
Maybe upon listening to someone else’s system there is a lightbulb moment; and that could either confirm your existing path or open a new one. I have sometimes commented about components saying I like this thing about item A and something else about item B and if only I could find an item that did everything well. And it was the same with these systems. I liked various aspects of all but don’t think that any one system was better than the other at *everything*. This may or not not be your experience but it was mine.
And it got me thinking. I heard a great saying once: that if perfection could be achieved that it wouldn’t actually be worth having. Maybe the perfect system is impossible for most people, and if so, then why bother with changing anything? And if you already like your system then maybe don’t drastically change direction as you may find that it’s just different and not better. Or maybe do as some on here have done just improve within the brands that you already really like.
And so it seems to me that making any recommendations to anyone who’s system you haven’t heard is really rather difficult. But what do you think?
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