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[Hifi_swlon]

As for obsessive I am however giving the ultimate prize to Hifi Swlon as his journey with his hifi has me very intrigued and he pips me for the title    

Hahahahaha    

Despite really liking music and having always had an interest in hifi, I genuinely never thought of myself as obsessive about hifi, at least until recently.  Frustration has probably driven it!

My Naim system sat unchanged for five years pretty much, and that was (at that time) the best system I'd ever had.  There was the odd thing that bothered me, and it wasn't the ultimate in detail (although I only found that out later), but it was a huge step up from what I'd had previously.  But it was the jump to computer based system, which I did straight after moving house, that seems to have just left me chasing too many variables - none of which seem to result in a sound that I really, really like.  Well, that is to say at least until I discovered Dirac, when I realised the hard (and quite expensive) way that I'd probably been chasing the wrong variables since I moved…

Which is why your posts were even more enjoyable Womaz - as you seem to have achieved not only a sound that you're really happy with in the end - but each step seems to have been carefully chosen to perfection.  I wish I'd been a bit less gung-ho with a big chunk of my journey.

But I'm going to get there, and as much as I like this particular forum (more than all the others), I won't be at all upset when it just becomes a place to read about other peoples adventures, rather than reporting on my own roller-coaster.  And come June I'll probably not have much chance to tinker with the hifi for a while, so whatever it sounds like by that point is probably where it will stay for a bit.  

So perhaps I should just suck it up and whack a $1,500 mains cable on there, it may well be the answer to all my issues.