Believe me, if anyone understands you, it’s me.
That’s why my first reaction to your post, that after a long period of extensive research and investment, you had completed the expansion of your system, was so mischievous.
I have been in this hobby for more than 40 years (hence the headphone line), and in some ways my professional activity has been linked to it and I know it will never end. When I see your equipment on the hifi shelf, then you certainly have, together with @Torq and possibly @ktc one of the the highest quality system in our community.
And now that I can no longer do my job for health reasons and have been sent into retirement, I have made the first phone calls to the European distributor of Holo Audio in Holland, who make me an offer for the complete Kitzune Edition Bundle & Red & Susvara .
I’m considering installing a Feliks Audio Envy and that should be it for now.
Until now, I had always installed Burmester car-hi-fi systems in my company vehicles because our clientele expressly preferred them.
I mainly used relatively high-quality mobile devices because I was rarely at home.
Then, due to a specific German problem, my health suffered severely, so that I have no longer been able to practice my job since then.
Due to my age, reorientation is no longer possible and so I was forced into retirement.
Now I’m focusing on my beloved hobby and enjoying what I have.
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By the way, due to my previous focus on mobility, I discovered a few very interesting compilations.
I would like to share one of them with you, as a quality audiophile.
If you can find an ifi iDSD signature somewhere,
connect it to your iPad and pair an Empy II with it,
yeah, for whatever reason, that fits like a glove.
I love salt & vinegar chips
and once I start with them, I absolutely have to empty the bag, that’s how it works for me with this pairing, I just can’t get the headphones off my head, this soundscape makes me addicted.
I can’t logically explain why,
but this combination probably has just the small amount of spice it needs to be addictive.
As a note, if I am correctly informed, Meze could release a new special edition of the Empy II, hand-painted, at the beginning of May in time for the High-End in Munich.
https://www.highendsociety.de/markenverzeichnis-2023-652.html
This would also fit well on your shelf.
