At what price is one considered an Audiophile.

 @jacobsdad2000 Sorry and I don't mean anthing bad about anbody and at this site I have never noticed (and not saying there isn't) any obvious females talking about audio gear. But I do suspect behind every audiophile that is married or lives with a women will get the LOOK 🙄when spending money on thier Audio System.

By education and tradition but also by physical genetical and biochimical design woman are tailor made and conditioned to passionnately mind about children and their male possible  consorts and men are designed and conditioned also to be occupied by objects which may help dominate and help  the tribes survival ... We have all in each man a feminine part of the soul and vice versa in the case of woman for sure...This is a balance between these two genetic but also symbolic forms in each of us ...

But in general woman loving music are not focussed so much on gear variation as men with similar interest ...And in general man loving sound are not so much focussed also on music for its own sake as much as woman with the same inclination ..

Ideologies opposing these simple general facts are just that, ideologies...

Of course, it’s almost always only men. What do you think we want to hear while listening to our beloved stereos ? And who do you think it should come from ?

Got it ?

Grado sr-60 headphones.  $99.

It is not how much one spends, but rather, how important is good sound and how much effort one puts into pursuing that sound.  I have a young friend who has not put in nearly as much money as I have, but, in his relatively shorter time as an audiophile, he has put in way more effort.  He finds stuff at junk and estate sales and does repairs/refurbishment.   He hunts down some quite odd items, like rare Japanese speaker drivers, to make various speakers.  Some of his junk finds are almost unbelievable--like a Garrard 301 turntable that was in a stereo cabinet where the whole works was purchased for $50.  He use to work for a local stereo shop from the time he was 17 to just a few months ago when he took a tech job at a test instrument company.  While at that shop he was involved in the installation of a system north of $1.5 million in another country.  THIS is WAY more than I've ever done, and I am pretty dedicated to audio pursuits.