You gotta do what you love.

My wife says I have a million and one hobbies. She can't count. I only have 4.

I don't have a high end system but it's certainly not base model. I bought all the essentials for a hobbyist: 4 channel mixer, 2 cdj-400's, serato scratch live, rokit 5 studio monitors. I have everything I need to mix great music and with my serato cdj combo, I never have to buy records; only mp3's. If you're a hobbyist like me, I don't see how else you would do it. I don't have a lot of hobbies but the ones I do have can get expensive if you let it. No matter what though, in the end, you gotta do what you love.