What's It All About?

PERFECT sound is what its all about. The system must be tuned by ear until there is nothing left to criticize. 

"PERFECT sound" 

-Subjective

"The system must be tuned by ear until there is nothing left to criticize"

- will never happen 

I did both, it is fun but the kitchen took less time (and less budget).

I designed my kitchen 30 years ago - its still intact, only the appliances have changed. I designed my house and listening room therein 30 years ago -  only my audio components have changed - I'd like to say that they just wore out like my dish washer did. I'd be lying. Good thing that it would take about 6 months to renovate my kitchen - keeps me out of there. Bad thing in my music room - I just spend money and drop things in place. Oh well. Keeps me busy and physically fit. :-)

OMG, audiophilia is soooo much harder than designing a kitchen.

There are so many more dimensions to high end audio… it is about nuances of perception, subtle values, marketing hype versus reality, system synergy, dozens of sonic variables, performance as well as geometry and aesthetics.

We, redesigned out kitchen a couple years ago. Piece of cake… equivalent effort to choosing a new interconnect.

I have put thousands of hours into building audio systems over fifty years. I know a fair amount. I put 80 hours into redesigning a kitchen and choosing all the finishes and components… turned out very very well.