True, I am very passionate ( not healthy at all) about audio and certain things in life.
Moreover, the biggest problem...I tend to judge headphones/ IEM/ speakers from point of mixing/ mastering ( this started with mixing our own music, as we can't afford to hire an engineer, eventually did some online courses which ended with a massive Ableton certified trainer course...I was not even using Ableton Live while enrolling for the course, Live always eluded me with the clip view and had to learn it during the free time in 2020... Live is not only a DAW , it's a strange software with absolutely endless sonic possibilities...YouTube videos don't even cover the 50 percent of the possibilities, you must learn from the engineers who are involved with the creation of the software..it's like Photoshop of audio..)
Anyway, I'm again drifting away...point being 80 percent of time I'm listening to music, I'm actually listening to things that I have to mix/ master for poor bands from all across Europe.
I don't charge them any money ( so they can't give me deadlines) but few bands' have started to pay!! Since I'm in a hotel now for more than a month( with nothing much to do) doing everything on headphones.
Few somewhat sucessful musicians have heard my productions and few very generous among them are sending me real solid monitoring headphones ( have 2 pairs of NDH 20 now!!)
Some youtubers like Zeos Pantera and DMS have also sent some nice portable analog gears, I have a pretty decent mobile production rig at the hotel room now, thanks to these generous people. I get to listen to many types of unreleased fresh music almost everyday, and since there is no money involved, can work without any time restrictions. In fact I'm mixing just a fantastic drum recording for last 4-5 days. Money won't give me this kind of satisfaction.