What do you care about in this hobby?

Oh, yeah....#'s 1 through 8....
Enjoyment primarily....making my modest investments punch above their weight....diy-ing a speaker type that I enjoy but the commercial versions are out of reach or too old and compromised to restore without factory assist.
So I'm literally rolling my own cones creating a personal variant just because I can.
It's involving, 180 out from what I've used to do.

One concept that intrigues is a line source version, just for grins....modules stacked, flipped at the top end....'bout 72" tall overall with some subs.
Thinking a sub swarm might be interesting with 4 line columns...

...not the usual bucket filler, but someone's got to do it. *L*

The music. I'd listen on an old boombox if that was all I had. What would our systems be without it? Some of you are getting bored because you don't like new music. You complain about nothing to listen to. So you recycle and classics are fun but, only to a degree. It's always been the music. Remember how you loved to enhance that new album with your system.

fun factor and tinker-ability

@mapman “What do you care about in this hobby?”

l have read so many interesting comments on this discussion. I believe your original post idea was for equipment only based replies, hence your bullet points. There have been so many music first inspired replies as well.

@knotscott ”Enjoyment”

….sound quality on a budget at a premium

@slaw ”Sound quality……

I’d include “involving” …. value at all levels

@rvpiano “Music first”

The rest will take care of itself.

@mattmiller “It has always been about the MUSIC first….”

… the desire to have the music playing as if the group was in front of me….

@russwill “The music”

l’d listen on an old boombox if that was all l had

@jsalerno277 “… l have auditioned 7 figure systems that have accurate sound”

…..but fail to express emotion and do not touch my soul”

I was wondering reading all the posts what now is perceived as the main consideration? In other words, “What do you care (more) about in this hobby?”

Lots of comments on emotion versus cost. Is it a “chicken or the egg” syndrome?
So for each individual there can be a choice, the “music” (soul) or the “sound” (accuracy), and which is perceived as the right route.

The question is, can well loved music mitigate and transcend any inabilities of a system, or is it the all-consuming accuracy of the system itself that is more important?

No. 1 is sound quality, amazing how this never ceases to be at top. So many ways to alter the presentation within a pretty much static setup.