Audiophilia: Is it the pursuit of audio excellence or just a desire to tinker.

@cey No she just has the misfortune of being married to me, a gear head, audiophile, engineer. So she is most definitely a casual observer, and the center of my universe along with our children. 
 

I am deleting and doing over my post also as I was being overly sensitive and have not had my coffee yet. 

Being an "audiophile" creates the perfect storm where a profound appreciation of music meets childlike curiosity about how things work, and how to make them better. They say "you can’t blame a compass for pointing north." And you can't blame an "audiophile" for trying "one more thing" to improve the performance of a system.

My granddaugter asked: "Grampa, why are you always working on your old cars?" Me: "Because I’m always fixing things that aren’t broken."

Enjoy the music. And, those zeros and ones, dampening factors, air gap flux densities, Litz inductors, etc.

@jacobsdad2000 the problem was my negligence not your reaction--i thoughtlessly jumped right into the discussion. all the best buddy. happy listening and keep that WAF high!

@hilde45 plus 1

While there’s music playing 4-5 hours a day, I try to sit with my eyes closed and truly focus on my system.  Sometimes I sit and smile and sometimes I get up and change something.

My real Itus, is reading all the reviews and watching YouTube videos and wondering how different products will fit sonically into my rig.

@curiousjim I try to sit for at least 2 hours in the evening and truly listen, not background noise, but spin up some LP's and fire up the tubes and really listen. Helps me to power down after spending the day fixing the world's problems, well at least the problems in my world. 🤔