Taking audio too seriously?


Is it just me or are some people too serious about this hobby? I can appreciate great sound and getting everything you can out of your system. At what point does it get too extreme? A jar of rocks, a magic clock, a $2500 power cord plugged into standard house wiring, speaker cables sitting on styrofoam cups? Should the magnets on my speakers face due north to align the flux lines with the Earth's magnetic field? Is anyone brave enough to share any other crazy tweaks they've tried?

It could just be ignorance on my part and I am not trying to rock the boat, but it just seems a little obsessive.
nuguy
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"are some people too serious about this hobby?"

No, I think some people are too serious, bordering on obsessive compulsive, about any hobby. It tends to be more of a male thing.

It's not audio, it's the nature of the person.

Having grown up in the UK and now living in the US it has seemed to me that, in general, American men are raised to take themselves, and their hobbies and pursuits somewhat more seriously than in England. There's good and bad in this. On the one hand the Americans will achieve more through their obsessiveness. On the other hand it will be harder to be satisfied.

Life is an eternal struggle to balance learning to be content with striving for better. We all lie at different points in this continuum.
Hobbies are vehicles for acting out our neuroses. I suppose it's reasonably harmless as those things go.
I don't go to Starbucks; so $4 a day is $14,600 over 10 years on coffee. I'd rather spend it on audio.

$4 per day for 40 years at the 10% average stock market historical return is $775,062.

And who is wasting money again?? My gear retains some value. The fancy coffee is literally pissed away..
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