Are all Audiophiles masocists?


My wife says my main hobby is collecting hobbies. She has a corollary to that realization which is, that I also tend to pick hobbies that I will never be happy with no matter how much I spend or how good I get at them. As an Audiophile she states my system is never good enough. I'm always upgrading. I believe we call that "Chasing the Dragon" if I'm not mistaken. She also says the same about several other of my hobbies such as... Golf (unlikely I'll ever shoot an 18), Cycling (a 4.5 hour century ride isn't fast enough), Drag Racing (Car runs mid 8's at 160mph in the 1/4 mile. Upgrades continue!) and there are others. So you get my drift.Is this just me or does the personality of the audiophile make us all just a bit masochistic?
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& 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.... :)

@isochronism .....

"...  the only thing good enough that I can't upgrade is you."

Not knowing the spouse receiving that....could be hazardous to one's health in ways unknown to us...🤔

I stay far far away of any 'Dear Abby' martial commentary....if, at all:

"Sweetheart, I can't upgrade the Perfection you already Are."

If lucky, she'll buy it....or know that you're totally BSing her, and kill you Verrrry Slowwly....;)
Masochism is about pain as pleasure.  Music is about pleasure, not pain.  If you’re suffering for your hobby, that’s different.  If you can’t enjoy the music, that’s probably more on the obsessive compulsive spectrum.  I do think that OCD perfectionism is endemic in this hobby, myself included.
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all of us upgrade each others because we are all rightfully embed already....
:)

If i judge by your posts asvjerry ,you are rightfully embedded because all your posts upgrade my spirit....
The only true masochists in audio are those who try to get into selling speakers commercially.

The rest of them are just shoppers.