Are all Audiophiles masocists?

The only true masochists in audio are those who try to get into selling speakers commercially.

The rest of them are just shoppers.

Having only recently entered the gon, I can already tell that it comes at a high risk. On one hand, you can find good basic sound advice, on the other hand, you can find yourself submerged in an unending search for sound nirvana through endless means, like audiophile fuses and suspended cables. No matter what, sound nirvana is impossible to find through other's opinions, since your own equipment, layout and ears, are different from anyone else. Long story short, at this point, going at improving my system in my own environment for my own ears is better served by doing it with my own tries and errors working with simpler things like working with the room acoustics. The difference between adding and moving absorbers and diffusers around provides a HUGE change in sound that no equipment change can duplicate once you get to a certain level of audio equipment ($30 K in my case). Trying to achieve that much change in quality of sound with the incredibly small equipment improvements tauted by many here is simply too overwhelming for my sanity. Fishing lines, rubber bands? To each his own but to me music is simpler than that, hence its beauty. Just my two cents. 

I own and play several trumpets. I own and listen to several systems. Listening is the key to life. Listen, understand and learn...

 The difference between adding and moving absorbers and diffusers around provides a HUGE change in sound that no equipment change can duplicate once you get to a certain level of audio equipment ($30 K in my case). Trying to achieve that much change in quality of sound with the incredibly small equipment improvements tauted by many here is simply too overwhelming for my sanity.

You are perfectly right...

Audiophile experience is more dependent on acoustics than on electronics circuits...



«The Greek theater acoustic is way more older than the Edison trumpet» -Groucho Marx 

Sorry I got to mid 8's in the 1/4 mile and thought......
That's one heck of a shopping car! 

A quick trip to pick up something in that would be rather rapid!