I'd go with it being a disease. Unfortunately I am one of the ones stuck on the outisde looking in (no funds). Been stuck with two homes for over a year now, thought we had one sold about 6 months back so started looking at speakers, amps, room treatments, then the sale fell through. Now it's to the point of even if we do sell the house, I'll no longer have the funds to 'celebrate'. Yet everyday I spend 2-4 hours perusing forums, looking for reviews, and checking prices on equipment I'd like to buy. I can't stop looking...
Anyway, I'd suggest setting up a home theater pc or network server. Depending on what you have already it could be inexpensive (assuming you don't already have one, didn't see one mentioned). Right now I am just using my regular pc on the 56" tv. Have most of my cd's ripped to FLAC, movies ripped to an external hard drive, and pretty much do everything on it from internet, listening to music, watching movies, and playing games. And if you build it yourself, it could take months putting in the research for what you want it to do. Just another idea.
