How many of us really suffer from AUDIOPHILIA NERVOSA


Just curious of how many of us suffer from this. When i read all of this it was kinda funny but then again very serious. I will be the first one who feels this way.                                                                                                                               Audiophilia nervosa describes the anxiety resulting from the never ending quest to obtain the ultimate performance from ones stereo system by means of state of art components., cables and the use of certain tweaks. Although the goal is supposedly to achieve maximum appreciation of the music, those afficted with this condition are merely obsessed with their electronics.                                                                                                                                            By no means original content , yet a truly spot on description of the malady many of us suffer from - Audio Nervosa.    And no, there is no known cure.                                                                                                                                           1) The bigger , the more powerful sound system the better and you will always find that no matter how big or how much power you have it never seems to be enough.                                                                                                           2) No matter how deep and powerful the bass sounds , it will always seem to be not quite deep enough and not quite powerful enough.                                                                                                                                                                   3) No matter how clear and detailed the treble sounds, you will always feel that it can be improved.                                4) Achieving audio perfection is absolutely impossible no matter how much money you spend.                                      5) No matter how much money you spend you will always feel that the system is not quite as good as it could be.        6) If you think that your system sounds perfect then there must be something seriously wrong with you or both.           7) All your friends think that your system sounds much better than you do.                                                                        8) The longer you listen to your own system the worse it seems to sound.                                                                       9) Any dissatisfaction with a new system, no matter how slight , will always become greater as time goes by.                10) Any new piece of equipment added to the system will always sound excellent initially, but nowhere as good when you get used to them.                                                                                                                                                           11) Regularly listening to poor equipment for extended periods is good because it seems to make good components sound much better.                                                                                                                                                               12) Regularly listening to good equipment for extended periods seems to make poor equipment sound absolutely dreadful and probably worse than it really is.                                                                                                                        13) Any persons opinion on the sound quality of a system is completely worthless because someone else will have a different opinion.                                                                                                                                                                      14) Any altercations you make to the system to improve it , no matter how extensive , will never improve it to the extent you wanted it to.                                                                                                                                                         15) No matter how good your system sounds , there will always be someone else with a system that sounds better.     16) You will always detect a difference between the sound qualities of two identical systems and never know why they sound different.                                                                                                                                                              17)Any attempt to match different makes of equipment together will never work out quite as you originally intended.        18) Improving any part of the system will always make some other part of the system seem worse than it was before.                                                                                                                                                                                   19) If you build a big listening room you will be very pleased with the result, but when you get used to it, you will convince yourself the room needs to be bigger.                                                                                                                   20) An infinitely huge attempt to achieve perfection would be at best only produce a system that was infinitesimally closer to perfection, but still not perfect.                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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When did I ever depart from the theme of explaining how I find my system/music therapeutic and relaxing?   OR- did you only address your original post, to those that suffer the same malady as you?
rodman99999 This is not about therapy or a relaxing post. Please stick to the original post please. Thank you. Or you can start your own post about music therapy and relaxation. 
I see! This is just a suggestion: If you’re going to make statements like, "And no, there is no known cure", at the beginning of a thread, not desiring any retort, you might postscript that with something akin to, "NO OPPOSING VIEWS ALLOWED!" I’m not sorry that I enjoy my system as much as I do, but- it’s tragic, that you seem find that so offensive. I’ll be certain to completely ignore/avoid any future threads, that you initiate, NOT wanting to trigger your other malady(Control-Freak Nervosa). Happy listening and ADIOS! OH, WAIT: I guess happy listening is out of the question, based on your initial post, so- just ADIOS!
It could be classified as the following diagnostic code:

300.29--- Specific Phobia with the specifier that the phobic stimulus is "less than perfect sound quality".


I like it; a DSM code for chronic upgrade-itis.

I just finished listening to the Soundtrack from Annie, followed by some Adele, and then Everlast (The Life Acoustic) to balance things out.  I listened to Rickie Lee Jones the other night.

There are better amps, preamps, phono stages and turntables than what I have. But, what I have sounds good, no, it sounds great to me.  I appreciate all the helpful feedback I have received along the way, and have built a really nice system (for under wholesale cost) and really only need to worry about if they are ever going to run out of vintage Telefunken 6922 tubes, and if I am ever going to catch my stylus on something.  Otherwise, I listen when I feel like it, and when nobody is home I listen to it loud.

I think we all intuitively know when we have gone round the bend and it's time to stop.  Same applies to our posts.