He spent his life building a $1 million stereo. The real cost was unfathomable.

@jjss49 

I'm sure that he had a lot of joy in the process.

@posbwp55 

Congratulations on that whitewash, but I think that it was made clear that his passion was far from solitary, and if you think that it's ok to make your children literal slaves to your hobby, then I'm not sure what behavior you would consider to be obsessive. 

I wonder why all of a sudden there are three separate threads about this system. I understand that there was an article about it, but it was old news here and had been discussed quite a bit in the past.