When you end up with over 15 pairs and rising in a few months since being on here, and empty out cabinets to store them all in and still run out of room. They have to be hanging.
When you buy spare sets to store away, of the exact same one, JUST IN CASE... and then you think about buying spares of those spares ( yep ) while you still can.
When you start worrying about dust on your pristine 35+year old NOS pair and begin to worry about pad replacements before they even get broken in.
When you think about buying multiple sets of an odd high end under-appreciated model that's no longer made and get mad that they phased it out in the last couple years, but then worry if you should get the spares of the spares mentioned above instead.
When the ebay rush kicks in and you
WILL win those to teach the other bidders a lesson.
When $50 becomes like $5 in your mind, according to the grand scheme of headphone economics, but it is still $50 in the real world.
When you go replace all the different tubes ( 11 ) in your amp with top-of-the line Russian and old Raytheons just to eliminate a single issue which may not even be tube related. And you just burned in 4 new ones but they won't be as good as the
NEW new ones of course.
What has become of me
"Just one last purchase" Reminds me when I used to play video games way back : " just one more, just one more REAL game, that one didn't count "