My kids are 21 and 23 and I am 100% confident that we will never be estranged. I have a wonderful, honest and comfortable relationship with my wife of 25 years. I have a wide circle of friends...

Hear hear! These elements are so fundamental to a happy and fulfilling life, that I cannot imagine being able to enjoy anything -- a stellar audio rig, included -- without these fundamentals. In other words, the enjoyment of music and sound are premised on a wider and deeper foundation -- or at least this is how I am set up.

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Success often requires sacrifice and discomfort; an idea we can't commit to without some level of obsession. 

Obsession Is the #1 Habit of Highly Successful People

Obsession has been defined as “the domination of one's thoughts or feelings by a persistent idea, image, or desire.”

“The people who succeed are irrationally passionate about something”

I realize this is social media but these kind of observations have no relevancy without citing where you found these words. Maybe "inspirational quotes" on Brainyquote.com?

When we discuss things that are debatable, even if it is not audio, we should always have a source for where you have rooted your point.

There is no link between obsessed people and success. Take all the obsessed people in the world and, unbelievably, they are all successful? 50% are successful? And what are the parameters on success? Obsessed?

I would say that 100% of serial killers are obsessed. I would also state, without providing a link, that 100% of obsessed people are generally disliked, probably difficult to deal with, and treat others poorly. 

There is no silver lining with respect to obsession. 

Obsessed by definition is: A persistant disturbing preoccupation with an often unreasonable idea or feeling. (Pulled from Merriam-Webster dictionary). 

It would be helpful if we could have debates that are rooted in something else than a saying or a quote. All humans deserve intellectual conference, rather than a shot in the dark or an off the cuff remark that has no root in the truth.

I'm grateful to the Post for publishing this article because it gave us a new dimension to Fritz's story. Like a lot of obsessed people (maybe most?) he was not a nice person. He lacked empathy and he was quick to form petty grievances. It's tragic that he and his oldest son never reconciled before he died.

But what's just as interesting is the petty bickering in this thread. There is an irony here that I can't quite describe.

We are rooted in something greater than ourselves and we play a game we choose to learn... We cannot even condemn ourselves , we can just realize the road we take is the wrong one or not ...

Some said, even thinkers that we are not free in our choices...This is self contradictory claim; we are free to put a specific content in our thought and judge this content we created and choose it or not as from ourself or not at the end looking at this content accepting it or rejecting it ... Geometry teach freedom...This is why Plato love it so much...

We can stay a divided realm or unite ourself to greater than us because what is greater than us is also "us" ... Truth is there to be loved before to be known and cannot be known before being loved... Wisdom pass over our limited knowledge...

Fritz had learned and do his journey well as he planned it for himself and all of us... As a teaching ... as a work of love ... We can accept it or throw it off...We cannot judge him ...

As for each one of us  , his purpose in life was greater than himself..

There's a "rule" somewhere that states "if you want expand some part of your life, it will pushback on others." I suppose we want to chime in and reveal our version of "the greater good", "a balanced life" and where to place our priorities. Sometimes it's difficult to separate narcissistic behaviors from efforts to improve the human condition for others.  What may appear to be narcissistic at present, may in fact, prove to be a positive force for humanity years/centuries later.  And, when the final "scorecard" is tallied, we may determine that the casualties (human or otherwise) were worth the price of admission for what transpired.  

The goal of "the world's greatest stereo" appears to be too narrow in scope to be impactful to a large number of people, The "balance sheet" doesn't produce a positive in the column of human interaction.  IF this system (and room) would have been painstakingly disassembled (like a Frank Lloyd Wright designed building), reassembled in an appropriate venue, and preserved for millennium, then we might be having a different conversation.  But, it appears we got to the end of the story, without a great deal of fanfare, or perseverance.