Should people with no turntable or reel to reel be considered audiophiles?

@sokogear  "considered audiophile"
Merriam-Webster definition is "a person who is enthusiastic about high-fidelity sound reproduction"
So could you clarify your question in relation to "turntable or reel to reel" VS digital?  Are you implying that "turntable of reel to reel" are more "audiophile"?  Those are simply two lesser fidelity mediums... that you can like or not.

I know many people who track their Porsches who would not consider themselves "Porschephiles". They would consider themselves "autophiles". The Porsche is just their tool of choice right now, sometimes just for that day, as they often have other sporty vehicles that they drive and track too. Several that have Porsches but never track them as well, but track other vehicles. Would that make them a lesser autophile or Porschephile?

Just about everyone who tracks a Porsche is a Porschephile

As dissimilar as vinyl and tape are relative to the original source, well calibrated analog playback machines are capable of sounding very good.  I would consider someone wed to analog playback media an ocular-influenced audiophile.  As someone who has spent the past 31 years recording and mixing professionally I can attest that good digital conversion sounds far more like what the microphone hears than any analog medium I have ever worked with, including Studer and Ampex tape machines.  Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love what those machines do to the sound, but for me fidelity= accuracy, and accuracy to the performance is my measure of fidelity.  I enjoy vinyl as well, but my enjoyment of it comes primarily from the ritual and nostalgia.  There is also something endearing about the sound imparted in mastering: the compression and limiting used to increase the signal to noise ratio, the faint crackles and the reversal of the RIAA EQ curve.  It takes a some judicious, creative processing to master a record that sounds *really* good, and much of that goodness never existed in the performance, recording or mixing...  the venerable Fairchild 660/ 670 mastering limiters striking a balance of vertical and horizontal limiting is a sound all its own...  the EQs chosen to make low frequencies sound richer without adding any more actual energy through transformer and inductor non-linearities...  all that stuff that makes a record sound like a record... it's cool.

Ok ,so as long as you love music . I didn't  mean to offend anyone with the comment about if you are deaf could be one .I know Beethoven was going deaf.But would that make him an audiophile? There was no audio electricity then ?But let me ask you guys .Is Thomas Edison the Father of Audiophiles. 

Dear @sokogear :  If I read or hear something stupid several times writed by the same gentleman/person my brain tells me that he lives in the stupidity land and I can tell him why he is an stupid one in an specific audio subject and for me this is not an attack.

You are posted several  posts that already show that your audio/MUSIC knowledge levels are really low and even that and many other gentlemans posts trying that you can learn you just follow in that " land ", so is up to you not to us. Think and understand what you think before post, easy.


""  They play files, not music. ""   for me this is a stupid statement and for you certainly it's not. Do it a favor and try to go-out of that " land ", every single day is a learning day. Try to use your common sense in a rigth way not in the way you showed till this moment.


R.