Do you listen to equipment or music.


This Blog got me to thinking about the subject:
https://www.blogger.com/u/1/blogger.g?blogID=6484902156509233383#editor/target=post;postID=191909277...
In the past I have spent hours listening to the same part of the same song just to fine tune various components of the of the audio system. I even move speakers and listen - move them again and listen more. Sometimes I wonder what I am doing. Whatever it is, when I get into this mode, I am not listening to the music.  It would be nice how the community feels about listening to music or equipment.
johnspain

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Ok, this may be a little off point, but you'll see - it ties in.

I have a sister that is clinically OCD. She will sometimes clean and re- arrange her house until she literally drops from exhaustion. She got this thing, awhile back, about collecting rocks to line her driveway. After collecting a good number of various sized and shaped rocks (on every walk she took, on every ride she took, from neighbors wanting to get rid of their rocks, etc. etc.) ranging from 20 - 40 lbs. she got enough to nicely line her driveway. Her OCD would not let her stop at that, now she has a one acre sized yard covered with pile after pile of rocks. I jokingly told her that she should contact Mr. T. and offer to build his wall and could even bring her own rocks - don't think she appreciated the humor.
My point is that, we as audiophiles, may get a little OCD and let a continual need for upgrades, tweaks and changes, take the place of periodically just sitting back, for a bit, to enjoy the music.......Jim