Whats your plans for 2024?

No forum would be complete without a question like that each year Phil  

I've been in a smooth and joyous period of no messing or meddling for a while now, and very happy, as system has never sounded better, so it's thankfully been music, music, music - the whole point of the thing. 

Curiosity obviously abounds in this game and because I've been so thrilled with my Plinius 9200 integrated amp, I'd love to hear it's current guise, the Hautonga at some point along the journey as the Hautonga is effectively a revised/'improved' 9200. Cannot seem to find anything from anyone who has experience of both / gone from the 9200 to the Hautonga so may have to find out for myself - one day, otherwise, no immediate plans for 2024 other than to keep on enjoying what I have.   

yes heard one at a show , absolutely lovely . if it works keep it !! they are always bringing out new stuff but i am not convinced its always better 

Just messing with the stuff I own.

cant quite remember sadly . its was beautiful though 

N9t sure what will happen hifi wise this year, it all depends on Mum and her illnesses, but think the family will be lucky if she goes beyond the end of March.

Short term plans: take delivery of my new faceted Walnut Solid Sounds 401 plinth with my Bronze Jelco 750D fitted, he's also making me a fitted travel case for it, and a matching cover for my Audiolab 6000CDT. Once it's here I will have a play with the carts I've accumulated (Cadenza Blue, Hana ML, Benz Ace S, H). The rest of the kit will stay as is.

Long-term:
Sell up where I am, don't really need a 4 bed detached Edwardian villa with a huge garden to myself, also needs mega £££s spent to bring it into the 21st century. Once this is sorted I will look for a 2 bed detached bungalow (somewhere up the arsehole of beyond if possible) and get someone to knock it about to give me a music room with accommodation. Should have a damn good drink left over so may treat myself to some hifi toys, Innuos Statement Next Gen, and 845 integrated and better speakers. Then again I may stick with what I have, as the sound I have now is nothing to be sniffed at, I'm definitely not slumming it with system 1 or 2.

Great amps Plinius, Plinius all the way for me. 

The Arce doesn't do native streaming services, only Roon

It was in case you hadn't noticed 😉

I did have a plan to rent the house next door and move all my crap in there whilst mine is stripped to the brick and totally refurbished. But the bloke living there now has just signed on to do a 3 year masters degree so that's all on hold until he finishes that and moves out.

I want some end game speakers but since they will inevitably be big and stupidly heavy, I'm not going to get them prior to doing the refurb.

So will just carry on buying the odd bit of kit on a whim.

Possibility the company I work for will be sold towards the end of this year, so don't know if I will still have a job there. If redundancy happens then I will go back into retirement, at least over the winter months, which means all non-essential spending will stop.

This year I plan to enjoy listening to music more and not worrying about the kit.

Mostly hoping to work on tweaks and optimisation of the current setup. Really happy with the 'cake' as is, so perhaps some icing, decoration and a few cherries!

Very happy with current Purifi amp, which is still a surprise to me. I'm sure there is much better out there and I'll certainly be happy to change/upgrade if a better amp (not too pricey) presents itself. Oli has mentioned a Krell could work, but yet to hear one. In the meantime, I may just tweak my Purifi a little.

Other than that, maybe a better tonearm cable.

Also, want to add a few large canvases (with Rockwool inside) to the room. I reckon echo/reflection could be reduced a tad around the listening area. Oh, and about 3 or 4 decent plants to act as diffusers.

Have a few ideas of what I will do this year.
A small one is to mount my PI/DAC streamer in a better chassis with a 7 or 11 inch touch screen and turn my garage into a proper workshop for wood and metal working (getting ready for when I retire - watch out Jason..... not).

It's what I did, no regrets here.

Mind you I kept my speakers but they aren't easily replaced and I've no reason to get rid of them anyway.

I'll fit the bass inductors I've had sat round for ns1000m for three years and finish the rebuild of my quad 63s. Bought them as a project I have no intentions of using them. I just wanted to build a set for the tick list