I think everyone here is an audiophile. Whether your communication reveals your knowledge or your hubris has nothing to do with it. This is your personality.
@mahgister
Have you ever tried to factor in the cost of the time you spent perfecting your system in this equation? How much would it cost someone to hire you to use your knowledge, patience and the sheer man-hour time to make their room acoustically nimble like yours? Maybe $50 an hour times 1000 hours? In the USA we have a saying: time is money, think about it. We all sacrificed for what we are passionate about. Money, time, relationship, there is a cost associated with it. $500 was just your initial investment, the real one is much more.