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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It's a two-sided coin, but it can happen to some. Many look at it as a hobby and want to tweak and improve the sound of their system. Some people do it on a small scale and others jump in full force. If one isn't careful it can get out of control as with anything we develop an interest for.
As with many things, AN is not an all-or-nothing thing.  There are varying degrees.  Also, suffering from symptoms of AN is not the same as suffering from AN.  A cough is a symptom of pneumonia, but it doesn't mean you have pneumonia because you have a cough.  I would chance it to say that everyone here has at least a few symptoms.  But it's when you absolutely cannot enjoy your system at all because all you're thinking about is upgrading or changing or that something isn't right that you have an issue, IMO.  And I have seen people like this. It is a very uncomfortable thing to watch someone unable to sit for five minutes to listen to a song without futzing with something in the system.  
Actually the opposite is often true, the bigger the system, the worse the sound. That’s what’s so #@%!! frustrating. 😀
you can bring a new diagnosis code with applied symptoms to our healthcare industry so you can get some finders fees paid to your pocket.


Nervousness. R45.0 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes. The 2018 edition of ICD-10-CMR45.0 became effective on October 1, 2017.