I fell into audio obsession by accident.
Never cared at all in my teens, 20s, or early 30s.
Long story short, I ended up down the rabbit hole.
Years later, I’m finally out the other side.
I’ve accepted that for a multitude of reasons I am prone to being obsessive with music and that this is part of my personality.
Those years sweating, fretting, angsting, toiling in both miserable anxiety from audio nervosa and sweating over the minutiae of every conceivable detail of audio reproduction I will never get back.
Could have been spent enjoying music.
I don’t want to return to that so I took years off the stuff.
Now I can deal with my proclivity to be inordinately bothered by poor audio, still appreciate good-sounding stuff, and actually just enjoy the damn music fer Chrissakes
Musico-audio experience
In my never-ending quest for musical satisfaction I have posted extensively on the best way to experience recorded sound. My latest conclusion was that the perception of the music must absolutely come first, then the sound. I now feel that the musico-audio experience is the desirable goal. Great performances in less than audiophile sound excepted, the combination of good sound and good music is the path to fulfillment. This may seem obvious to many, but for those of us that suffer from audio nervosa the obsession with sound alone has too often ruined our experience.