Playing with electronics and extracting the most enjoyable music reproduction that I can financially muster. I love tubes, cables, plugs, tweaks and other stuff associated with audio. very similar to my auotmobile hobby, racing, race rims and tires, racing cams and heads, coolers, special gears. Different hobby, but similar methodologies to achieve better results. Ciao, Audioquest4life
Hobbyists are usually building or collecting things. I don't think too many of us are building our own gear, but we have probably collected a great deal of electronics over the years. It seems like "the Hobby" is another way to sum up the Quest for the absolute sound. The path to the Quest is summed up well by Avguy and eventually one comes to the same conclusion as Mike_in_md.
"This X" is a way of defining something which sounds a bit stilted to many people over the age of 30. It seems to have come into popular use in the first few years of George Dubya's presidency when George, and many politicians (mostly conservative side) started to describe "the USA" as "this country" and "this country of ours" rather than "our country" or "the United States of America." I looked around for a while to try to discern whether it was a Bush-ism or someone else's schtick. I have not found the source if it is not George Dubya (or his speechwriter's).
"This" has become a word which implies inclusiveness without saying 'our' which sounds too possessive to some people. It no longer seems to be a way of commenting about the the thing specifically (while insinuating that the observation may not apply to other ones). Personally, I find the usage to be annoying and contrived, but it certainly has gained a foothold in this language (smirk).
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