Types of Audiophiles


The Purist

A good stereo should be a transparent window into the recording session with no opinion or distortion of it’s own

 

The Dynamics Fanatics

A good stereo is like a thrill ride at a carnival. If I’m not jumping it isn’t worth listening to.

 

Live and Let Live

It’s all good man, put your money where your heart lies.

 

The Bean Counter

Buys gear like he’s stocking a used stereo store. Purchase price and retail value determine what comes and goes out.

 

The Canners

I bought my balanced headphones specifically so you wouldn’t ask me questions while I’m listening to dub step.

 

The Scientist

You can’t prove you have a soul so all your opinions are meaningless.

 

The Blind Follower

Can’t hear a difference between amp A and B so he wants to know if he should spend 5x more on B and will wait to be told which to get.

 

The Brand Loyalist

Falls in love with the idea of a brand or designer and changes his job to accommodate the demands of his audio jewelry

erik_squires

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@waytoomuchstuff ...*sigh* 'Typical breakfast bev' is a fruit + tofu smoothie...Spouse Ev feels that smoothies are a food group.

Typical chaser: Coffee, my spirit animal.  Black, like my attitude. 🤨

Late night/early AM 'night creature' bev, anything that creates 'psychic ground'. ;)

Not limited to liquids...

I like your catagories, closer to realities....

B & S in our households includes the Animal Intrusions; 1 dog, 3 cats.

Sunny D. Dog insists you must have something edible for her and will place 60 lbs. underfoot closely to prove it....

She's patient, and will wait.  Has for 14+ years...

Betty D. Boop, Ginger Boi', and Cleo Patra will alternately be drawn and repulsed by you, you stranger you.  Cats that know speaker grilles and cones mark a feline for a moment of terror.

Ergo, an Audiopetophile:  Not your typical audidolt...*L* ;)

Esoteritype (aka Exoteritrope):  May subject guest listener to whatever has caught the ears and attention of late, 'genera obscura'....

Can be nearly anything; Human 'fails' or 'dance moves', loud launches, vehicles with notable exhaust notes (usually of high dB levels), 'music' that barely qualifies the description (sometimes and previously known as 'word jazz')...

DIY Devote':  Has objects that recreate sound; some in a fashion 'pleasing to the ear', some done just for the hell of it because it amuses the muse.

Anyway...Happy Post Thanksgiving y'all.  Stuffed roast duck, cranberrie', riced potatoe', and leftover green beans.  Chocolate heart attack ice cream dessert.

Hope yours was delicious as well.

Stop by for an imbibe when in the locale, may be done here or elsewhere in the area, as this local focal locus is a tad obscure for company....*L*

Have a great weekend, J

*G*  At least no ones' throwing bricks...yet.... ;)

Brilliant, @erik    although I suspect there's a lot of hybrids, mutants, deviants, 'remixes', pervs.... 😏  I'm OK with being somewhere within all that...

"Just the facts, ma'am..."

"You can't handle the truth!"

"A walk through the ocean of most souls will scarcely get your feet wet..."

"We're All bozos' on this bus..."

"I think I'll run away to Mars..."

Pick your path, as long as it's valid to You. *S*

Cheers, *clink* 

..spent hours moving spouses’ 2 monitors and stands on her office desk ’to the right a bit’ and unsnarling the cables on Sunday pm...

Today: "The monitors are too close to me...." so it gets undone, taken off the gas stand 2 monitor stand, restored to the original stands of the monitors (which had gotten squirreled away in her office and mistook for the ones of my monitors...similar, but not the same ’fit’...)....

"Use the rawhide hammer..."

Hammer a monitor....yeah, right... 😣

She found hers, finally. Snap, done....

...and wonders why I can get ’cranky’ when I’d like to spend a day re-running lines to my speakers to restore some sense to the non-sense....

...and why I may want to reach through one of my monitors and apply a ’dope slap’ to an innocent....*emoji unavailable*

@erik... catagorize away, you’ve just ’fingerprinted’ the surface.... ;)

"Mirror, mirror, on the hook,

whose output stage is about to cook?"

*...the silver backing begins to swirl, slowly forming copy...*

Please refer to the 'magic 8 ball' for further analysis.

 

@erik_squires ..re 11/26 @ 9:10...

Down with your last sentence...👍  Save me a seat nearby... ;)

Samantha Fish is in AVL 1/29, venue entry tix $ is rational for a change.

I'll be the guy with spouse, wearing an obvious 'audio-comment' shirt.

Not branded....just 'typical' of my mind-set. *G*

I'll buy 1st round.

Such a deal....*L*