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
Taking audio too seriously? Hardly. Pardon me while I rearrange my rocks and adjust my clocks for the next album. Gotta go.......
Hard to imagine Drubin how or why someone with your attitude towards music would ever get interested in audio to begin with.
>>Rocks and clocks are serious?<<

Doubtfully; but the seller is laughing all the way to the bank to make a serious deposit.
audiophile is hobby and it is based on sound. Music is also based on sound....so the sound is our hobby! How we experience it is different from one to the other...some people listen just with their ears and others with their ears and body...lets make it fun!