How competitive are you with your system?

Hard to frame it in those terms. Many variables. 

I've tried to whip some competitive interest from my gear, but I'd done it in jest and it was interpreted as a challenge to mess with my mind and patience....
Ground faults, 100db feedbacks, 24/7 test tone sweeps with the volume on mute....(speakers are all passives, so no reason to involve them.....like nuk'ng Switzerland for going 'Huh?'.....).....dialing down the ac from 110.....105....104.5...

Nope.
'Bout as competitive as roadkill....

I'm fine with the current stasis locally....Always room to improve, but that's not the 'end all be all' of it by my means or desires at this time.

Yes, there's the basic 'enjoyment', but 'serious' gets applied in contrast to my diy's in some respect or qualities....and one can only guess at what I'm up to...🤷‍♂️😏

I enjoy what I have.  Love leads to contentment.  Comparing leads to jealousy and misery.  

Being competitive with an audio system would be even worse than keeping score at golf - not only would it suck the fun out of listening to music but there would be no universal metric to score the results.  Just dumb.

Mine is not competitive at all.  It just sits there unmotivated until I turn it on.  I suspect that it is putting in minimum effort to please me.  it is like owning a cat.  Still, I do like it a lot.

What would my system be competing for anyway, even if it were motivated.  Is there a goal, a standard of excellence, a competitive mark to hit?  Given that there is no consensus standard by which a system can be compared to, I think it is sensible that my system has chosen to just sit there and do its least.