Music lover or audiophile?

The nature of audiophilia is to get more out of even the crappiest recordings.

Guys who don't know how to execute that will be sitting around with their 3 records on repeat. I run away as fast as I can when I see a dude who falls in this category.

Music First!

The nature of audiophilia is to get in there and fiddle with the tools, like any other hobbyist.

“I think you have to decide, are you a music lover or audiophile?” Really? Why? This is a ridiculous statement. Why? Because it imposes limitations on humans that does not reflect reality. Also it sounds arrogant, pretentious, shortsighted and stupid. IMO.

Seems like a false choice. There is more than enough music that I really like that is well engineered and sounds great in my system to keep me satisfied. I've never found a need to listen to music I don't like. Or that is a terrible recording.

The music I like is more enjoyable if it is well engineered and reproduced on a quality system as opposed to poor system. A lot of folks are perfectly happy listening to music on a $100 bluetooth speaker and that's great if it works for them.  But the idea that if you like high quality equipment you must not be an audiophile doesn't make much sense.

@2psyop 

You’re right,

I’ve changed my views since June.