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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.
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drubin
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There is an underlying assumption in audiophile circles and here on Audiogon that equipment as an end in itself is a bad thing, or is somehow "lesser" than the lofty pursuit of music. I don't think that's particularly fair. If someone wants to pursue a hobby of putting together a system that creates a certain quality of sound, but is not necessarily a music lover, are they wrong? Is their hobby less virtuous than yours? More power to them, I say.

Besides, music is for pussies.
audiokinesis
2,754 posts
 
My audiophilia nervosa eventually reached the point where I had to do some serious soul-searching and make a far-reaching decision: Either join a twelve-step program, or become a dealer.

Duke

ps: On the magnet orientation question, are those ferrite magnets or rare-earth magnets??
sugarbrie
3,854 posts
 
I am actually a music lover first. But that does not mean I have thousands of records and my money is spent there.

For classical music, given the choice between a fair sounding great performance and a great sounding fair performance; I always go with the great performance. I know many audiophiles that only go for the great sound, performance is secondary.

In other words...some listen to sound; others listen to music. I want that fair sounding great performance to sound as good as possible, therefore, the great system.

If I can find a great sounding great performance, then I am in heaven...
zaikesman
3,017 posts
 
Rocks and clocks are serious?
audiofeil
4,011 posts
 
Taking audio too seriously? Hardly. Pardon me while I rearrange my rocks and adjust my clocks for the next album. Gotta go.......
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