Understood, except that it is not always a matter of wealth, or of having more wealth, although, of course having money to purchase whatever one wants, whenever one wants would remove some significant problems, but as far as i know, that always generates others. Besides, I do not see this simply as a question of having the capacity to accumulate cans or audio gear in general.. That would be too simple, unfortunately. I found
@DavidMahler 's
"Battle of the Flagships" thread to be one of the most useful, when I first got on head-fi and was researching headphones... Thanks, David. However, I also knew that if I ever found myself surrounded by so many headphones and related gear, and they all belonged to me, I'd probably get turned off the whole audio gear thing, since it is the music, after all. which counts for me in the last resort, and I wouldn't want that to get lost in an entire army of cans, related gear, not to mention endless measurements, and head to head shootouts.... I guess, what I mean by this is that personal temperaments, idiosyncrasies, and of course, preferences, always need to be taken into account in such discussions, and the variables one encounters in these fields can be dauntingly unpredictable and surprising...
At this point, this is getting to be too philosophical at the risk of taking the thread off course, so I shall say this last thing to keep things simple, and hopefully, give this digression a rest. In the end, I am looking for a qualitative way of experiencing music, and a set of equipment that would make that experience possible, and also so satisfying that I would be content enjoying the music for several years with minimal upgrades and maintenance of the equipment, without feeling any undue pressure to consider other acquisitions in audio gear... This need not be some elusive unreachable goal... In some ways, I consider myself to be halfway along already, and the search itself can be quite thrilling sometimes too, and that, in itself, is not necessarily a bad thing...
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