Are all Audiophiles masocists?

My better half may say otherwise, but I don't consider myself a masochist on any level. If I love something I work at it. When I reach a level of satisfaction I kick back and enjoy.

"Anything worth doing, is worth doing right" - Hunter S Thompson

No pain, no gain.

Age is the great equalizer. If you live long enough, and I sincerely hope you do, these things will all take care of themselves.

& years ago i was feeling the urge to upgrade and after the impossibility to upgrade anymore, because of the lack of money to do it; i turn myself in uncontrolable race to improve my audio system by myself...

With great success, it takes me 2 years of listenings experiments...

But now the sound is less an obsession than the music itself for the first time this month...The reason is simple when you are near the high-end audio experience, you feel ectasy in any files or cd....It is impossible like before to be annoyed by any music .... Good one for sure....Then you listen one cd by each hour without any desire to change something or the cd itself....

Music begins only when the sound problem is no more there....Before that many music i liked where not listenable on my system, now they are all beautiful.... And before i was not even able to hears all the details or even the instruments or delicate sounds...

Audio is not important, but only  when you have it right.... :)