Top Ten "Definitions of an Audiophile"


One sentence please. Run-on sentences tolerated.
I will begin:

"A person in pursuit of the most pleasing listening experience 
obtainable yet with no facility at all to accept that they are
 Close Enough".
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Audiophile: one who professes to love the sound of music, yet never is able to relax and enjoy it due to constantly being obsessively distracted by innumerable sonic details that never are quite right, or even if they are then the meter says they aren’t, or even if the meter says they are then the graph says they aren’t, or even if the graph says all’s well some reviewer somewhere says oh the Symphonic Bombast is so much better, or even if all the reviewers everywhere say your exact system is the best there can possibly be even that doesn’t matter because some know it all boob somewhere on the internet says what are you nuts wire direction can’t possibly matter and by the way your speakers absolutely positively must be line array electrostatic pure crystal piezo quantum time aligned, and I have the degree from Starfleet to prove it, and so away you go fussing and futzing and racking up the credit card to the point your retirement and even the roof over your head is at risk and the one thing you can never ever do is enjoy the music because you are not a music lover- yet even that is something you can argue about endlessly - because you are an audiophile. See also audiophilia nervosa.