Audiophile Humor


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An audiophile is boasting to his club at a meeting about his exotic and tres expensive new interconnects. Veils have been lifted, levels of detail exposed, factors-of-ten improvements in sonics..."

As he does this, a club member sneaks over to the interconnect and scrubs off the brand name.

Seeing this, the first audiophile loudly proclaims, "You idiot! You've ruined them! Now I can't tell them apart from any other cheap interconnect!"

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You know why speaker cables have different names?

So you can tell them apart.

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How is listening to a turntable like hearing a drummer knocking on your door?

The sound keeps speeding up and slowing down.

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What's the definition of a gentleman?

Someone who has a mint pristine first pressing Hi Fi copy of "Bang Barroom and Harp" and doesn't play it for you.

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An audiophile saves up for years and years to get a mint copy of "Look of Love" and on the way home from picking it up, decides to stop at the record store to buy a protective cover for the sleeve.

"I'll only be inside a minute, I'll just leave it in the backseat, it's cool out. I'll lock up the car and be right back."

He's only gone for a moment, but when he comes out of the store he is crestfallen to see the back window has been broken out of his car. He races up to the window, expecting the worst.

When he looks inside the car, he sees......two copies of "Look of Love."



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The funniest audiophile humor, IMHO, was the old cartoon series in Stereo Review.  By Rodriguez, IIRC?  And I have one cartoon of a rather angry wife yelling at her husband, who is planted in his sweet-spot chair:  "$5,000 for a pair of cables, because you can 'hear the difference,' and you can't even hear me calling you from the kitchen!"
Stereo Review’s, "funniest" and biggest joke was Julian Hirsch, the stone deaf, everything-sounds-the-same, "audiophile".   Of course, those of like aural acuity never could get the joke.
Actually Julian Hirsch said that amplifiers that measured approximately the same will sound approximately the same. 

He said a lot more than that(to which I wasn't even referring), over the years. To me, his classic was, "I never listen to live music, but- I have a pretty good idea what it sounds like." Even somewhat needing the rag, to keep informed as to what was available to some, "economy" customers, I could never bring myself to buy another issue after that one. OOPS! I did buy one more issue, when the Panor Dynaco Stereo 70 II was debuted, in the 80’s. Getting my laughs from the daily newspaper’s cartoons, was much less expensive, not to mention- didn’t make me cringe.