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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.

Nicely said. I think the exact same impulse motivating people to read the Rorschach test that this story presents also crops up in those debates about whether audio is "only about the music" or also about "the technology and sound." The answer is, of course, subjective but people like to argue it as if there was only one, objective answer.

Another writer could have taken a different approach to this story and - using the same facts - left us with a completely different set of conclusions.

What stands out about it was that Ken was an audiophile.  If he had put his time and money into building a boat it would have been an unpublished boat story.

I would have been interested in knowing how good his system sounded.