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Originally Posted by DownInFlames
Of course getting better components when you can is fine, but some people can't stop looking for a perfect reproduction of something they've heard or imagined they could hear.
I bought my living room speakers used as well. The guy who bought them new returned them after a week to get the next model up. And the kicker is he was using $2400 bookshelf speakers as rears in his home theatre.
The old adage applies: Music lovers use their equipment to listen to music; audiophiles use music to listen to their equipment.
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the other thing people tend to forget is hi end systems tend to be lousy at playing most of the music that we grow up on, you can't listen to punk or most rock on expensive systems, it just sounds brutally bad, I have a low end bedroom system that I play most of the stuff I grew up loving, it has all the things audiophiles hate, tone controls and a loudness button!! but the Damned or MC5 sound kick arse on it