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Taking audio too seriously?

Is it just me or are some people too serious about this hobby? I can appreciate great sound and getting everything you can out of your system. At what point does it get too extreme? A jar of rocks, a magic clock, a $2500 power cord plugged into standard house wiring, speaker cables sitting on styrofoam cups? Should the magnets on my speakers face due north to align the flux lines with the Earth's magnetic field? Is anyone brave enough to share any other crazy tweaks they've tried?

It could just be ignorance on my part and I am not trying to rock the boat, but it just seems a little obsessive.
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ausjoe
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joeylawn36111:
Unsound - you got ripped. I know where you can get all 9 Planets Aligned for only $15M above what you paid!

Don't look now but they discovered a new planet. Completely unaligned. It never ends.
joeylawn36111
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D'OH!!!
shoe
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jaybo, why do you think Stereophile surveys are flawed? not that I doubt your statement.
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shadorne
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Many audiophiles seem like people obsessed with what they eat; those who are always dieting and counting calories, proteins etc. ....they focus on the tiniest details (a meaningless tweak here or there) and completely lose sight of what is good food and healthy eating habits forever torturing themselves with weird combinations and extremes!!
unsound
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Joeylawn36111, Ausjoe, Another planet!? That's it! I'm now convinced that quantum physics/chaos theory is the one and only seriously way to take in audio. From now on, I'm going to get seriously long cables and hire individuals to randomly run aound my listening room carrying my floor standers, while I run randomly around listening. This is the one and only way to take audio seriously. On a positive note, at least I won't have to realign the universe again!
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