What do you LIKE BEST about your current audio system?

I started building my retirement system about 6 months ago.  So far, the parts I enjoy most are streaming Tidal masters and playing hires music using my Innous Zenith MK2, and listening to vinyl using my Technics SL-1200G.

With this new gear, I’ve been hearing my CDs and albums again for the first time.  I’m hearing subtle background music, voices, and instruments with a clarity that I never heard before.  I get lost in the voices and music when listing to Randy Crawford singing “Imagine” on the “Casio Nights” album or Stevie Wonder on the “Songs In The Key Of Live” album, etc., etc. I just love the sound of vinyl in my new system. 

I am glad that I can play my stereo (hate the word 'rig') as loud as I want, rather than having a bad case of stomach backfiring, and people three units down the hall hearing it.

I think the best thing about my "rig" is that I can listen to it for hours and not think it needs to be better somehow...I don't listen to my favorite music and think, "Should I reverse the fuse? cover the walls with foam panels? look up what Nelson Pass is thinking about? buy tube dampers?" Nope. I might swap out something someday just for fun or if something dies, but for now...it's utterly dialed in to my tastes.

I’m with you Wolf, the part about somehow needing to be better. Communicating the musical message is what matters and all the rest is to degree. Yeah, it could be improved but not in any profound, substantive way that is going to be revelatory, been at this too long. Isn’t it about engagement with the music that is the end goal? To that end I’m home.

I’m also with Wolf.  I will have thoughts of upgrading something or other when I read the audiogon form, 6moons, TAS, etc, but NOT when I’m listening to my ‘rig.’