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Taking audio too seriously?

Is it just me or are some people too serious about this hobby? I can appreciate great sound and getting everything you can out of your system. At what point does it get too extreme? A jar of rocks, a magic clock, a $2500 power cord plugged into standard house wiring, speaker cables sitting on styrofoam cups? Should the magnets on my speakers face due north to align the flux lines with the Earth's magnetic field? Is anyone brave enough to share any other crazy tweaks they've tried?

It could just be ignorance on my part and I am not trying to rock the boat, but it just seems a little obsessive.
nuguy

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drubin
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Hobbies are vehicles for acting out our neuroses. I suppose it's reasonably harmless as those things go.
drubin
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There is an underlying assumption in audiophile circles and here on Audiogon that equipment as an end in itself is a bad thing, or is somehow "lesser" than the lofty pursuit of music. I don't think that's particularly fair. If someone wants to pursue a hobby of putting together a system that creates a certain quality of sound, but is not necessarily a music lover, are they wrong? Is their hobby less virtuous than yours? More power to them, I say.

Besides, music is for pussies.
drubin
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Hard to imagine Drubin how or why someone with your attitude towards music would ever get interested in audio to begin with.
I like sound, period. For good or ill, music seems to be the easiest was to consume sounds. Some of my favorites are Jacintha Barber, the fat Hawaiian guy. Eva Warnes. and any minimalist recording of any Brazililan female vocalist accompanied by acoustic guitar and shakers. Oh, and Blue Man Group. And if you want to know The Best amp for reproducing shakers (it's a shocker), send me email. Got to keep this one under my hat.
drubin
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Do you still have the GMA Europas ?
I have them in the au pair's hot tub system. A lot of people don't know this, but the Europas are killer underwater speakers. Very liquid.
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