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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.
nuguy
nuguy OP
195 posts
 
Nuguy - I would be very careful what I say about "hobbyists." They are very touchy.
You're right, I hope I didn't offend anyone and apologize if I did.

I have friends who think I have become obsessed with music who will spend $5K on vacations twice a year. All I can think is man, you just threw away some nice speakers and all you got is some pictures of yourself drunk on some beach. I guess I'm getting the bug too, I enjoy it very much, it's harmless and keeps me out of trouble.

One more thing, imagine if you could buy the clock with the pebbles already in it? There goes Hawaii!
jeffjarvis
257 posts
 

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I took your advice and placed my speaker magnets due north to align the flux lines with the Earth's magnetic field.

Good results but it totally screwed up my Fung Shei.
nuguy OP
195 posts
 
I took your advice and placed my speaker magnets due north to align the flux lines with the Earth's magnetic field.

Good results but it totally screwed up my Fung Shei.

I had the same problem. It cost me $180,000 to have my house rotated 12 degrees. Now I'm looking at a set of dipolars, and I may have to move it back.
unsound
7,341 posts
 
Damn, Nuguy! I should have went to your guy. My guy charged me $180,000,000 to rotate the planet!
jaybo
4,478 posts
 
nuguy...your observations are correct. there are indeed those hobbyists who covet equipment and obsess over where the tambourine is on a recording. One has only to check out the hundreds of used equipment classifieds to see the great equipment circlejerk.....don't drink the purple kool-aid, and the day you use the expression 'i was blown away', or ask for help choosing music, its time to get a doctor. good luck......
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