I designed my kitchen 30 years ago - its still intact, only the appliances have changed. I designed my house and listening room therein 30 years ago - only my audio components have changed - I'd like to say that they just wore out like my dish washer did. I'd be lying. Good thing that it would take about 6 months to renovate my kitchen - keeps me out of there. Bad thing in my music room - I just spend money and drop things in place. Oh well. Keeps me busy and physically fit. :-)
What's It All About?
I've given this much thought and finally come to a conclusion. This whole audiophile system building "hobby" is exactly like designing and having built a high end kitchen. Some people get the basic triangle right and then everything just flows. Other people get hung up on the backsplash tile and cabinet knobs and probably remodel within five years.
Maybe it's not what's it all about, but then neither is the hokey pokey.