Should people with no turntable or reel to reel be considered audiophiles?

Ocd every tiny, small aspect of your system too the point you’ve  gone slightly insane and your wife is about too kill you. Then do it again after a few years. Sell, sell, after buy, buy, buy. 20k later I can slow my pace. Holy smoke I think I’m done honey, I promise. Crap I feel...crap I can’t stop myself, oh no, I must buy again. One word crazy audiophile...

Damn forget the comma.

Being an audiophile is not about what you own. Its about how you get what you own to sound!

I am very proud to be one by my own creativity....My systems look like trash and cost peanuts.... His sound is out of this world by my homemade low cost methods then being an audiophile for me is being creative not being a customer.... You cannot buy the "audiophile" title with an amplifier.... The audiophile task is more important than the piece of electronic, the ultimate question is: How to embed it?


A true audiophile rarely upgrade.... He makes perfect the embedding process and that cost if we are creative peanuts.....


I think most people dont understand that.... :)

As usual you are ALL WRONG!     Just kidding.

A person who enjoys music is a “music aficionado”

A person who enjoys listening to music AND does something to make it sound better to their ears, is an “audiophile” no matter the format or system.

A person calling another person a “porschephile” should be a hate crime.

A person bragging about being a good autocrosser and considers themselves a auto racer, should also check with their wife before going out to the store.

Notice that the people with the best systems are the least judge mental(sp).

Peace out

 Some of us have the means to upgrade and some upgrade when they can afford it. I’ve been in both camps...as the means provided I upgraded. I now have 2 systems. One is a home theater and the other is an almost as amazing, poor, left over, hard to sell montage of components that I decided not to sell because their resale value on audiogon wasn’t worth selling if I could have my “audiophile” habit upstairs also. I love how someone says I’m not a true “audiophile” because I upgrade every 5 or 6 years for the last 35. I’ve been to many a live event (saw Rush and the amazing Neal peart 48 times) Been to at least 500 plus live shows and I love that sound, but a PA system isn’t practical in a home environment, (goofy wife what does she know). The klipsch fortes I owned in the 80’s as well as my entire system (that took my poor ass years to built) is still in use by my x-wife to this day. Audiophiles come from every walk of life and what connects them is the music and it reproduction. Period.