It helps alleviate withdrawal symptoms but it is still a real problem for audiophiles.
The situation is this; you hear a new cable, amplifier, speaker, whatever… in your system and it is so good, so much better than what you have been listening to, that it makes you think your current system … well… sucks without it.
And your system does suck without it, in comparison. No question.
But for whatever reason [usually $ or space limitations] you cannot at this time.
So your are now stuck with a system that sucks… but as where before you did not realize, now you do.
Every song, EVERY NOTE, reminds you how much it sucks.
There are many ways to try to get oneself to forget and to go back to the previous, innocent state of believing that your system ‘Rules!’ or ‘Kicks Ass’ or whatever shorthand you use to compliment your system and how much it brings you enjoyment.
Not sure we have a 12-step program for this [yet], but:
1. listening to someone else’s system that REALLY sucks helps makes you appreciate your system again. If you have any dealers nearby, they can usually help with this 🙂
2. play very unfamiliar music that you just are not capable of imagining what it would sound like with the component you cannot have just yet
3. go cold-turkey and just not play your system for a few weeks
4. Don’t listen to revolutionary components like this in the first place [we all try to do this, those of us who have been bit, but we are only somewhat successful… curiosity you know :-)]
But in the end… it is all a band-aid.
Nothing is forgotten, nothing is ever forgotten. [for you BBC Robin Hood fans :-)]
