By no means original content, yet a 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 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 could 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 it or something seriously wrong with you, or both.
7) All your friends think that your system sounds much better than you do.
8te) 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 on.
10) Any new pieces of equipment added to the system will always sound excellent initially, but nowhere near 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 equipment 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 person's opinion on the sound quality of a system is completely worthless because someone else will have a different opinion.
14) Any alterations 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 individual 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 that the room needs to be bigger.
20) An infinitely huge attempt to achieve perfection would at best only produce a system that was infinitesimally closer to perfection, but still not perfect.
