Ken Fritz article

Another writer could have taken a different approach to this story and - using the same facts - left us with a completely different set of conclusions.

What stands out about it was that Ken was an audiophile.  If he had put his time and money into building a boat it would have been an unpublished boat story.

I would have been interested in knowing how good his system sounded.

I think there may be a bit of Ken Fritz in many of us.  How many of the people close to us feel we have gone overboard in equipment acquisition and or obsessing with the sound of our systems?

I read in a book once "What does it profit a man if he gain the whole world but looses his own soul?"

One other thing hits me about this story. The WP writer seems to imply that striving for excellence is a mental illness. Isn't that just typical of a certain way of thinking espoused by a certain type people driven mad with envy and lust for control over the objects of their derision? 

I think it depends on the stated objectives and how those objectives effect others, and at what expense. Sometimes those outcomes are unknown in present time and may lie dorment for years (centuries?) before the final "balance sheet:" is known.