At what price is one considered an Audiophile.

I pretty much start every day listening to classical music on ipod and Bose ipod dock/speaker...

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A person that is may never happy with the sound they have and has to have the latest design. Of course that does not mean they do not love music it just mean they can't completely enjoy what the have.  

How much does one have to spend on equipment to be considered an Audiophile, if it is truly the later than the music.

$132.79

I believe if you call yourself an Audiophile, you are, just the real desire to be such, makes it so.  I am an audiophile, and have been since 1964, I took apart my parents console and built boxes for the speakers, hung them over my headboard, and ran speaker wires from the back of the console to the speakers, laid in bed and  played records.....I was an audiophile.

For example,

Elac Debut Reference Floorstanders from Andrew Jones - $1400

Rythmik L12 Subwoofer - $629

Yamaha A-S701 integrated amp - $800

Schiit Modi Multibit DAC - $300

Sum Total = 3129 USD ----> The fidelity and musicality of this setup is bonafide audiophilia. For a "music first" audiophile (not a gearhead, not a brand name snob, not a dude in pursuit of audio jewelry or elusiveness, etc), this could be end game.

20 years ago, he would have had to spend magnitudes more for this quality of sound. The above mentioned ballpark would be the price of admission.