What is an audiophile? Are you an audiophile?

I guess i am less an audiophile my system (500 bucks) is done...

I explained how i did it at no cost or very low one....

I listen music.....

The distinction frogman underlined made sense for me, a lover of music put spontaneously and without even thinking a ceiling above which he will not go, if the piano is in his room he will be busy listening music....Sounds will no more bother him anyway...

I proved for myself that a 500 bucks system is enough to create this experience....And it is not everybody which like that claim or believe it... 😊

For sure for example my speakers give me only 40 hertz but very good one, with their 7 inches driver well embedded in my room, i listen cello with my chest... Almost all music is there then it is enough for me.... But it is not enough for all then a 500 bucks system even well embedded has limitations for sure....But most people want 20 hertz... For me voice and timbre instrument are the most important and the enveloping listener factor or LEV....The only audible test to verify that is classical orchestra and live opera....

I proved for myself that controls of three things matter the most than anything else: mechanical vibration and resonance controls , electrical noise floor controls and the most underestimated and difficult to do right : acoustical passive treatment and especially active mechanical acoustic controls...

The reason is simple audio engineering design is mature already from decades ago, then it is easy to pick relatively good components, what is not easy is learning how to embed them at low or no cost.....
😁 Then if someone boast about gear he is not for me in the right direction even if his system is very good....Anybody with money could do that....



I will let "audiophiles" boast about the gear now and costly "Tweaks"... And i will go listen music....

I am now interested "philosophically" by the experience of hearing ,sound, speech, and music...

If someone know a book about that give me the title.... No audio related book please...


My best to all audiophiles and/or music lovers....

A person that enjoys "their" type of music or sound. They are ALWAYS close.. AND hear that perfect sound.  Not always though..
Change genre a bit and;

Tinker
Tinker
Tinker..

Not always easy going from Highland music, with bagpipes and a Pan flute, to hard core rock and roll.. or island music to chamber music.

BUT that tinker, tinker, tinker...

Master M how ya been buddy?

Tell um... :-)

Regards

I just told....And i spoke too much...

My deepest salutations to the organ pipes master mechanic...

The most important secret in audio are simply related to  how work organ pipe....

You already know that yourself...

Regards.....

frogman6,416 posts04-29-2021 7:29amAn audiophile is someone for whom the quality of the sound of the music, not the musical content itself, is of the utmost importance. An audiophile prioritizes sound quality. A music lover prioritizes the quality of the musical content. This is not to say that one can’t prioritize both. However, ask yourself this question: if forced to give up one or the other, which would it be? There’s your answer.

My favorite answer.

I will add a 3rd type. The pseudophile. The pseudophile pursues the perception that they are prioritizing sound quality.

In my experience, there are far more pseudophiles than there are audiophiles.

mijostyn

Who cares.

Exactly. It's just a label.