Do you spend more time analyzing the sound of your system, worrying it could be better?

@mijostyn Thanks. Appreciated.

NO! I stopped being neurotic about sound quality long ago!

That’s about as concise as a version as the false-dilemma driving this thread can get.

False dilemma: Either you love your system's sound (and are just agog, all the time, passive) or you are neurotic (frantic, chasing the dream).

The third option is the happy tinkerer. The experimenter.

That’s what makes this forum fun. Anyone who is just happy with the sound of their system should prove that by going off and listening rather than telling others they’re neurotic.

@hilde45 I like to tinker. That is why I ride Italian motorcycles and cars. 

I spend time listening to music. The system disappears in the room and is replaced by musicians all in their proper position on stage. The original performance reproduced.

Isn’t everyone’s system like that? Isn’t that the reason we have good systems?

To point to what bpoletti just said, I became involved with hi-fi audio to become more engaged and satisfied with this beautiful, precious thing called music.  If I then engage in inordinate fretting and anxiety, that’s on me.  I’ve accepted that this is my personality and that I need to balance these proclivities with healthy gratitude  for what many would consider indulgent extravagances.  
 

There’s nothing wrong with people whose enjoyment is the “process” itself: analyzing, tweaking, experimenting, etc.  If people do what they want and it ain’t hurtin’ anybody, no harm no foul.