Is it time to just quit?

Gibberish, alternatively jibberish, jibber-jabber, or gobbledygook, is language that is (or appears to be) nonsense. It may include speech sounds that are not actual words, or language games and specialized jargon that seems nonsensical to outsiders.

Elizabeth, that word is a great description of audiophile talk.
Regarding your current ennui you might want to try Ishmael's solution:

Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off—then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball.

I don't get the "quit the things you like" thing as that indicates a lack of passion…although maybe you should dump any interests that engender whining. I have a few expensive hobbies, and the audio one generally gets to a point over the years that only small things (generally these days just new tubes here and there) are needed as my system sounds great. Oh yeah…I still buy CDs. Watches…always seem to have room for a new mechanical watch, but not often and not too precious…I have many and love the damn things. Also, I recently decided to sell some extra items to justify the purchase a couple of new acoustic guitars, which can be expensive but some of these are so astonishing that they’re utterly worth it although you do have to play them, and that’s good as my finger style acoustic jazz and celtic chops, such as they are, disintegrate otherwise. I highly recommend "better" guitars from companies like Santa Cruz, Martin Vintage stuff, Bourgeois (sounds elitist, but Dana builds some real good guitars), Collings, etc., as a way out of Seasonal Affective Disorder even if you don’t play that well, and man…a great guitar makes an amazingly satisfying "absolute sound" right there in your lap, and can ultimately save you some therapist expense.

@onhwy61 : Seafaring didn't work out too well for Ishmael unless floating on a coffin is considered therapy. ;-).

My stress level is one step away from 'soundly sleeping'. LOL            
Way way more like to die from 'inertia' than stress.                          
Maybe I should take up coffin bobbing?                
I would need a good stereo system in the coffin though.

Interesting idea. Would anyone make custom coffin system ? 
Dying from inertia would be a terrible death indeed.