WHY DO SOME AUDIOPHILES THINK YOU ARE BRAGGING WHEN YOU ARE SHARING?

I'm actually bragging so people will think I'm cool, and generally it's from the "I buy used and new stuff for less money from research and dumb luck" school of bragging. Nobody thinks I'm cool though, so I'm planning to drop more names, mention how insanely wealthy and good looking I am, and how very cool and smart audio and music professionals drop by my place frequently to marvel at my uber fabulous sound system. That could do the trick...yeah man...

If you won the lottery, you would likely have an issue that most lottery winners (who weren't wealthy already) have...you stop enjoying the simple things like active "present" enjoyment of an audio system...you immediately are deluged with requests for money or offers to handle it for you, friends and family treat you utterly differently, and you're obsessed with the minutia of dealing with a sudden total life change. You could by ultra expensive gear, but you wouldn't enjoy it much. 

You have no right to enjoy anything without the tacit approval of other people...that's simply rude. It's OK to own all the aforementioned stuff, just try to temper your enjoyment until everybody agrees that your gear heap is praise worthy.