My main hobby used to be mountain biking. Until A unfortunate accident four years ago turn me into a quadriplegic. Audio has replaced mountain biking for me.
When you look at mountain biking as a hobby you have the equipment, which would be the bike and you’re either riding the bike or tinkering with the bike. Having audio as a hobby, you have the equipment, which would be the stereo and you’re either listening to the stereo….or…? There’s really no need to tinker with the equipment. It’s kind of what’s missing about the hobby of audio. You don’t need to tinker with the equipment but that doesn’t stop guys from doing it.
personally I think that’s what makes guys go crazy about cables, power cords, fuses,bi-wire, interconnects, etc. it’s and easy and cheap way to interact with your equipment. There’s a whole industry within audio that feeds on the need people have to interact with their stereo. Millions of dollars change hands every year for the tiniest of changes that a product may or may not make in a guys system. it’s easier to spend a few hundred here and there to feed that inner beast then it is to save thousands to buy a new piece of equipment. After being in this forum the past few years I’ve viewed call different sizes of beasts That need to be fed. How big is your inner beast?
