Log in to check out faster. Patient: A lack of sound clarity with some distortion. Both my audio system and my body seem, well, a bit off lately. Either can be associated with mundane or bizarre behavior. Most hobbies are fairly benign, though certainly far from all. In a moment of rational thought, Handl called the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority to see if his home-brew project was illegal.
Shortly after Handl hung up the phone, the police arrived and arrested him. So what exactly is audiophilia? Yep, many of us Copperheads are on the audiophilia spectrum and are glad to be! Many audio enthusiasts have distinct thoughts and opinions on a range of subjects, including: how to set up a dedicated listening room, integrated vs.
Ethernet cables, reflective vs. The hunt can be frustrating, quite subjective and expensive, but once found, audio nirvana is quite fulfilling. So, in my desire to better understand audiophilia, I decided to research different types of philias with an eye towards identifying a few commonalities and differences. To my astonishment, I counted in excess of different philia-related conditions.
You may be familiar with some, though the vast majority are quite obscure. For example, a brontophile is someone who is fond of thunder and lightning. An odontophile is someone who is fond of teeth or dental surgery, while a rupophile is deeply attracted to dirt.
My mother would say I was quite the rupophile in my formative years. Dirt in the garden is better than dirt in the grooves. Courtesy of Pexels. I also wondered if my detailed counting of philias suggested a tendency towards the counting of things, a condition the medical profession refers to as, what else, arithmophilia. Now that I mention it, I also obsessively count off second time intervals each morning while doing stretches for my chronically sore back.
