What Is This Hobby?

08-07-10: Orpheus10
A hobby is building model airplanes; this is an obsession.

Some people are obsessed with building model airplanes.

Orpheus10, please describe what you're obsessed about.

Onhwy61, first I want to apologize for such a long time span between your question and my answer. I was obsessed with critical listening. Now I realize that was foolish. Imagine a plane that overshoots the runway by 10 miles. I should have stopped a long time ago and listened exclusively to the music.

It's an obsession because of the undefinability of it all. It's impossible to figure out what's right, what's wrong. You can't SEE music (unlike art or a car) and is constantly changing so how do you hit a moving target?

an attempt to attain the "highest" level of sound quality within some budgetary constraint.