I lately wonder why I’m an Audiophile.

limomangus   Relax and enjoy what you own.

To be honest, it's impossible to relax and enjoy the music with the bad sound system. Why so many a'philes hear their system alone? It's because other family members can't stand the sound more than few minutes and they don't want to hear it never again. It's that bad. They can stand $10 MP3 players but not your expensive audio system. Do you think whose ears are wrong? Do you think you are really relaxed with your system sounds? 

You can try to relax your body with your system's sound, but your brain isn't really relaxed. You know what you go through when you listening your system.

A'philes are searching for the good sound all their lives. But you don't understand what is a true good sound since your ears are biased with bad sounds all around us. The good sound at the store isn't a good sound at your home.

The original music is an absolute reference. Don't trust your ears unless you hear the original music correctly. When your system sound closer to the original music, non-a'philes respect you and enjoy your system together. If you are an a'phile, make your system sounds close to the original music. Alex/Wavetouch audio

I spent years living as a pretty much ocd audiophiles. Massive amounts of reading and researching, going to audio dealers, attending shows, listening to other's systems, keeping audio journal (which by the way continues, although much condensed these days). Audio was a drug and I was hooked. 

Funny thing though, I'm mostly rather nostalgic about all of it, I recall mostly good things vs bad. Its only when on rare occasion I look back through the journals and see the angst in the pages I wrote do I recall the bad times.

At this point, I can say it was all worth it, right of passage for me, getting deeply involved in this hobby probably served to keep me out of trouble in other areas. Getting deeply involved in cars and motorcycles served the same purpose. Getting deeply involved in hobbies is also a great leaning experience, exercises the mind and has utilitarian purpose in that I do most of my own repairs and maintenance on all manner of things. In the audio realm I've done much diy repair and maintenance with direct help via phone from the designers and owners of equipment in my system. DIY all my electrical work, dedicated lines and optimizing whole house grounds.

At this point in life non judgemental about all manner of hobbyist, I've encountered the still obsessed ocd types, equipment churners, etc, I suppose all are fulfilling some inner need, whatever gets their rocks off ok with me.

I must say with my stereo rig, I'm more than happy with its sound Could be better, absolutely but I jumped out of the rabbit hole I bought my VAC tube amp and ARC LS15 tube pre amp back in 1995  Many other updates over the years  But the one that really brought it up to the next level was the addition of my tower speakers with built-in powered subs with gain control and my two SVS Ultra 13 subs with the upgraded plate amps with DSP  I'm now listening to truly full range music with no indication were my subs are located I listen to everything from Frank Sinatra to Odesza and can't get the smile off my face 

@sns  On “ocd” with audiophiles or music lovers.

l am definitely not an audiophile. I know it for sure. I have spent more on my record and CD collections in the last 55 years than l ever have on all my audio equipment. Do l have OCD with music or does that make me a music lover?

One thing for sure is…. I have never found the need to fall in love with my hi-fi equipment.