About the "being happy with a lesser system thing": I think that you may have been happier with a crappy system and never known the difference if you had heard nothing better. However now that you have a real high end audiophile type setup you probably say to yourself all the time things like "man, X sounded like crap compared to my system" I know that I do. When I first got the axioms I was impresseed, but did not notice a hugely vast difference between them and any other system, but now when I hear a inferior system I know it is inferior...

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