I had just made a post in the Home Theater section that dealt with problem solving. I find it much more necessary to figure out what goes wrong in a system that complicated. There is some satisfaction when I solve the issue but it isn’t my idea of a fun way to spend an hour.
Two channel audio isn’t about solving problems. It is how can I make an improvement. This will occasionally be certain tweaks like speaker positioning but more typically involves auditioning a component in the system and trying to figure out if it’s better (as opposed to just being different) than the previous. When I had a long term relationship with a dealer (who wasn’t afraid to let me know when I was full of it, even if it cost him a sale), it was kind of fun. Just getting something shipped over the Internet, and sending it back if it was unsatisfactory, is a pain for multiple reasons. So my changes have become rare.
Audiophilia: Is it the pursuit of audio excellence or just a desire to tinker.
So my wife made this observation after I spent a couple hours fiddle farting with cables, connections and speaker placements. She said is this hobby/obsession your desire for audio excellence, or just you like tinkering with stuff, tweaking your system and feeding your OCD?
She said you try this and try that and guess what it all sound the same to me. She really knows me and my OCD.
Enjoy your Sunday.