Hi to everyone,

i just had a chat with my friends in Italy and Holland. We came to talk about our Hobbys besides audio and what audio actually means to us and why we started it. My Italian friend for instance used to collect fast cars. Ferrari, Lambo or Aston Martins. Then he collected nice watches and is now into audio. My friend in Holland used to play with little sail boats, then with paintings. Both, like me love music. I personally was in the paper 3 times with custom computers based on liquid nitrogen cooling or watercooling and multi cpu systems. I drove that hobby to the excess just like they did with cars, watches and boats. But once the top is reached they jump to the next hobby. Granted this is fairly complex with audio, considering the speakers i want cost 145K not to mention the 100K Silverking amps and the km runs of Magnan wire etc...

Will there ever be an end to this "addiction"? Most cannot answere those questions, since its a personal choice. I have spent tens of k's in the last few years on this hobby and reached a sonic level that is extremely hard to get to by any normal means if you either dont swim in money or have a normal income with a family etc..

Why this excess? Why drive it to the limit? I do not know the answeres other that its a damn wonderfull feeling and sounds out of this world. But this going nuts! And i am a small fish under the ultra high end people in terms of money and time spent. To me this hobby is on one side the enjoyment of music, but i have to push it to the limits to apreciate it. Its sad but i sit infront of my DIVAS now with about 6K used electronics. It sounds out of this world still, but i am pissed because my pream died and i cant use my good cables and my good amps. It sounds far below what it can sound and i know i will be back up and running in a week, but it pulls me seriously down.

Any inputs? How do you see this hobby?