a rant

i think its very confronting just listening to music - and not listening to how the equipment sounds. settling in and just enjoying the music takes being open minded. 

Ive had well over 100 pieces of gear ranging from solid state amps - tube amps - class d amps - class g amps (arcam) - cd players - dacs - streaming devices - turntables - speaker cables - interconnects - like someone said - its a hobby - what else should you be doing.

same as golf - im a golf enthusiast - for 30 years ive chased this tip and that swing method - all promising to lead me to a golf perfection

so what i see now as with stereo and golf - its not the hobbies so much im addicted to - its chasing that im addicted to - so ive joined a 12 step program for chasing - ill let you know how it turn out. 

To me, the hobby is the buying and selling and upgrading of gear, where I'm actively doing something. I would never consider anything like listening to music or watching movies or reading to be 'hobbies'. Those are just things I've done for as long as I've been alive. 

I am not sure that audio was a hobby for me.

If i think about it my goal was not buying and trying gear pieces but succeeding with low cost system to reach complete satisfaction about sound and understanding how to do it.

Acoustics dont change with gear pricing scale...

I succeeded after many years...

I had no hobby it seems anymore... ( i changed 2 pieces of gear this month but it was necessary not an hobbyist action)

I am interested anyway by reading about audio and acoustics...I will call it one of my hobby anyway...

I listen music...

To stay in the mood of this thread , i suffered very badly without speakers for a month...

But take it with a grain of salt...

I agree with the idea that my audio journey is a hobby, and for the time being, I get great pleasure in learning from and engaging with the hobby; and that means spending money. I am not retired and can afford what I spend on audio, and for now the cost does not impact my life in a negative way. I'm adding upgrading a pair of speakers, a streamer, a DAC, and finishing a dedicated audio room.....which I may add home theater later.

Mahgister brought up Baach, and I will be spending a lot of time at Axpona with the folks from Theoretica and learning much more about the Baach systems. The ability (claims they can) to present most recorded music closer to how it is presented in a live performance, greatly intrigues me. Tom Martin from Absolute Sound recently made a written and Youtube review of the technology, and now I'm very curious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxI6wf5TYTU

Thanks for the video...

Mahgister brought up Baach, and I will be spending a lot of time at Axpona with the folks from Theoretica and learning much more about the Baach systems. The ability (claims they can) to present most recorded music closer to how it is presented in a live performance, greatly intrigues me. Tom Martin from Absolute Sound recently made a written and Youtube review of the technology, and now I'm very curious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxI6wf5TYTU