The Wilt Chamberlain of Audio Gear

Look you guys are getting the metaphor wrong. You are not sluts and you are not whores. You are Johns. You remain the same while the gear changes. You are the customer; you are the john.

Here's a kind of side question to the OP's: 

How many here were swapping gear in and out and realized they needed to work on their room?

If that was you, and you sorted out your room's acoustics, did you go back to swapping gear? Did that then, again, change the treatments in your room?

There are a lot of variable at play in how things sound, and to just swap gear misses a bit part of the adventure.

@douglas_schroeder 

There is nothing wrong with loving the gear as much as the music itself. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

Hear hear! I'm agnostic about which is more important to me, but the amount of people who weighed in with the idea that the music is obviously "ultimate" was interesting. And some were downright, um, intense, that it was "obvious" that gear was subordinate. There's no reason for the gear without the music, silly -- they said.

https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/why-do-some-think-music-not-gear-trading-etc-is-the-ultimate-...

There is a difference between constantly seeking the new because one has no sense of what they're doing -- fumbling around, wasting money, learning nothing -- and what you describe, which is the quest for new experiences and knowledge.

@lou_setriodes LOL! Yes, you can call yourself whatever you like. But, as your therapist might say, it’s very "interesting" that you’ve decided to call yourself the submissive in a relationship where you’re clearly reveling in dominance. The "master-slave dialectic" has applications in audio, after all.