Audiophilia: Is it the pursuit of audio excellence or just a desire to tinker.

@jacobsdad2000 

No question about it. The more devoted to tinkering the stronger the audiophile mania. I'm an easy one to explain. I am a tool freak and have been building stuff since I was 13. But, how do you explain a guy that has trouble with a screwdriver tinkering away with whatever they can manage? I know several of them. 

There are levels of tinkering from fiddling with speaker placement to building your own loudspeakers, all with the goal better sound. Where does this come from in us? What evolutionary process developed this instinct? Certainly, if you hear better you can pick up your enemies earlier trouncing through the forest.  @mahgister  can pick up a mole at 50 yards. 

It is not that i can pick up a mole at 50 yards... It is not true... 😊 You mock me or over estimate me .... In the two case i like your humoristic way to say it ...

Learning a bit more dont make you better than others for spotting mole at some distance ...

It is the fact that i did not pursuit my tail confusing it with a mole near me ... I did not confuse playing at random and tinkering with solving problems at some moment in my journey, lately Alas! ...I did not confuse the price tag of the gun with the identification of the mole ...And my goal was enjoying a meal made of this mole not playing with a costly gun ...😊

@mahgister can pick up a mole at 50 yards.

@jacobsdad2000 

Until I retired, I never had an hour a day to sit uninterrupted and listen! Now it is become a habit. Long story, but I just received a new set of speakers and they are slowly breaking in and of course I am fiddling with their positioning. 

@jacobsdad2000

While you may view it as "both", the fact is, you chose to frame the topic as an "either or". 

Is it the pursuit of audio excellence or just a desire to tinker

@stuartk No Christy my wife framed it that way. I know semantics but I do see it as both also. Okay break is over.