Today, I sold one of my gear, and I looked at my spreadsheet to gauge how much I spent on audio gears since I started this hobby. If I sell my all gears at market prices, my net spent would be around $2800. It's been around 33 months since I started this hobby, I spent $1,000 per year on average...

Unless you happened to have a very healthy wallet, many of us have had to reallocate our resources to buy an expensive headphones, DACs, amps, and.. cables. What did you stop doing for this hobby? At least, I stopped buying flagship IPhones on a yearly basis. Here is another interesting story...