I'm here for the enthusiasts, not the snobbery

Those of you that like Porsche stories......I got a special edition last year, called "Exclusive"....basically, a Cayman S very dressed up, lowered, carbon fiber, etc.  The dealer gave me a code, that took me to the Porsche factory via computer to watch my new car being made.   Saw the leather being stitched, etc.  I saw the finished car being put on a boat (looked very much like a giant parking garage inside....hundreds of cars of different brands, each had their own parking space.  I saw the car travel across the Atlantic, go through the Panama Canal, and then up to California.  It was then trucked to Scottsdale, when I raced to the dealer to see my new car in person.   An absolutely fabulous experience.

   I would hope there are no prerequisites for being a audiophile... and would hate to think that my appreciation and love of music, stereo equipment, and everything involved was not recognized because I did not fit someone's definition of an audiophile.
I really don't apply the audiophile label to myself, when someone asks what I like to do or my hobbies I say; I love music, history, technology, old Jeeps. I mean, when they read my eulogy I would hope and rather it say something like "He was a good man, a good person, good neighbor, proudly served his country. Lover of life and always took solace in music, it took him to different places, different times, he connected with it." As opposed to; "  He was a good man, a good person, a Audiophile..."

Looking back I have always been enthusiastic about listening to music, as far back as I can remember. When I was 10-12 I was sitting in front of the speaker in the living room recording music from the radio with a cassette tape deck and microphone.
In the following years pictures show me with portable stereos listening to music.
In my teens I was in music stores searching for that song I had heard on the radio and immediately fell in love with.
From there it was stereos to listen to music, for years I had All In One AVRs until finally a few years ago I made the transition to separates.
I also took all my CDs and put them on a computer with Plex for a media server that is connected to my preamp. I recently found some missing music and went through the entire library adding folders, correcting information, and added a couple hundred songs I forgot I had. Sometimes I feel I am curating a collection, future generations need to know about and hear music like Jay Ferguson's "Thunder Island" or less known but just as good "I come alive". Or Saigon Kick's "Love Is on the Way", or Poco's "Heart of the Night", Cat Stevens, King Harvest, or countless other great artists and songs.

So if all this means I am a audiophile than I'm a audiophile. I just know that I love music, stereo equipment, all of it, and at the end of the day I just want to listen to music.

Oh yeah and I appreciate Porsches for what they are as I appreciate sports cars in general, but I prefer Domestic. 78 Pontiac TA with 455 in my younger days, now a Dodge Charger.

Had a couple of bikes, laid one down. Like they say it is not a matter of If but a matter of When. You have to be willing to accept that, and the ensuing pain.

  Well that was only going to be a paragraph...

" 1 - All Porsches are ugly. This is an indisputable fact no one wants to talk about and means all debate needs to stop right there."

I agree, even after a person showed his 2, (No disrespect intended). They are butt-ugly, but we are in a personal taste context so saying All Porsches are ugly is like saying all Simaudio components are ugly.

I"m glad you are here for the enthusiasts. 

My wife used to be a Transplant Nurse.  They called them Donorcycles.