Are all Audiophiles masocists?

For the first part of your post i will say that the price to pay to be free, really free, is consciousness of our own slavery, to begin with ourself and at the end to end with ourself....But in between we are suspended between polarities, and extremes.....

For the last question part, yes, i will do the same thing in my audio journey, and being without money has been for me a great luck because i has been push to be creative, then my audio wishes are realized by my own hands ....

Obsession is a problem only if we cannot satisfy it and control it by ourself, his name is creativity when it is the case, otherwise it is a bottomless pit...

:)

I apologize to give an asnwer to questions that were only rhetorical and for which you did not wait for an answer...

My best to you....

« All fundamentals are polarities» Goethe, Coleridge, Faraday, and Groucho Marx

I do like it a bit rough

@cd318....
"Now if only you were aware of all that before you began...would you still do it?"

*L* Since none of us gets the opportunity to live life backwards, that falls into the 'Monday morning quarterback syndrome'..mho...

If one did have the chance to 'play it again, Sam' the outcome would certainly be different....good, bad, indifferent, or even to a sudden unforseen Stop @ That Curb *screech*Smack*lights out*

Where you are is where you Is.

Are we masocists? *L* Yup.  We keep getting up in the morning.... ;)

@douglas_schroeder

I get bored without progress, and I love the challenge of advancing a rig continuously. I also thrill to hear a performance become more engrossing, emotionally fulfilling, over the years. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that - as long as there is integrity in my relationship with my wife, maintaining my charitable giving, and I’m not blowing the rest of the budget.

Especially well said.
Guttenberg deals with the upgrade question by having listeners consider that maybe they want *difference* in their rig, and not just better. They want to turn the jewel over, get another view, expand laterally and not just "forward" or "better." I kind of took that from your comment, Doug.

Also -- your point about relationships, charitable giving are huge, to me. You’re looking at audio in the context of a healthy overall approach to life. That’s bound to mean that when you listen to music, you’re more fully open the to joy and meaning potentially found there. Admirable.

@asvjerry,
Are we masocists? *L* Yup. We keep getting up in the morning.... ;)"


Every moment of existence is priceless.
Every single one.

No matter how bad things get, there is always something to look forward to.

There has to be.

Hope is truly the most wonderful thing.
I don’t see how else we’ve made it all these millions of years.

We might all be partial masochists but we’re also life’s greatest optimists. Probably even too much much for our own good.

Somehow we never seem to get tired of wishing and searching.