Taking audio too seriously?

The stuff folks do for entertainment is varied.
Some spend $10,000.'s to climb mountains... For what?
Some spend $10,000.'s on sport car racing.. or skiing.. or sport flying..
So what is a few thou on jars of pebbles and clocks...
If they got it and are crazy enough to want the stuff... who am I to spoil the fun?

"are some people too serious about this hobby?"

No, I think some people are too serious, bordering on obsessive compulsive, about any hobby. It tends to be more of a male thing.

It's not audio, it's the nature of the person.

Having grown up in the UK and now living in the US it has seemed to me that, in general, American men are raised to take themselves, and their hobbies and pursuits somewhat more seriously than in England. There's good and bad in this. On the one hand the Americans will achieve more through their obsessiveness. On the other hand it will be harder to be satisfied.

Life is an eternal struggle to balance learning to be content with striving for better. We all lie at different points in this continuum.

Hobbies are vehicles for acting out our neuroses. I suppose it's reasonably harmless as those things go.

I don't go to Starbucks; so $4 a day is $14,600 over 10 years on coffee. I'd rather spend it on audio.

$4 per day for 40 years at the 10% average stock market historical return is $775,062.

And who is wasting money again?? My gear retains some value. The fancy coffee is literally pissed away..

Music is serious, audio is a diversion.