Top Ten "Definitions of an Audiophile"

Anyone who has spent more on his system than on his (or her. Yeah, right ;-) music library. I would say collection, but that term now seems to me to have negative connotations. Like buying an LP just to own it, rather than to listen to.

An audiophile is like a wine taster who despite regularly attending festivals (and having a fetish for collecting bottles and labels) rarely drinks for pleasure.

Audiophile: One who has extensive vinyl and CD collections with superb source playback, but relies exclusively on streaming.

Hmmm. I’m an audiot.  Fortunately I’ve stopped chasing the dragon ever since 2018 kicked my financial ass. 



I’ve been fortunate to be on the rebound, and I’ve gathered together a modest system that pretty much delivers everything I had in the past, albeit sans want of something else. I learnt. 

The joyful pursuit of orchestrating just the right balance of components in the expectation of providing a balanced reasonable facsimile of a performance.