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


Just like those driving a Porsche SUV can join PCA (digital audio fans can join Audiogon) but are certainly not Porschephiles unless they also own a coupe (Panamera owners I guess gets a pass here).

Please respond with a yes or no and we'll tally a vote for the first 100 responses.

sokogear
I would not survive a minute on the track, but have driven 959. Around Gmünd, no less. And I had not known what PCA was.

Life is not fair to Porschephiles.

Time for an audiophile experience, earphones and Walkman. In 959, it was Blaupunkt radio.
Nothing confuses the PCA faithful more than showing up at the event ( like Marymoor park ) in a very rare but also outlaw 993 wearing a Prancing Horse ballcap...

only true Porschephiles also have the tractor...

we are the people our parents warned us about !!!!

anybody running a Rally car ? Logging roads at Mach 9? Our podunk club had a very competitive Saab back in the day
rauliruegas
.... 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.
Raul, I know that English is not your native language, and it can be a struggle even for those for whom it is. So it is with politeness and courtesy that I tell you that using the word "stupid" towards another is indeed an attack. I understand that you may not intend it that way, but there's really no other way for a native speaker of English to interpret the remark.
All parts vibrates, then we must controls resonance...

The electrical grid of the house must be cleaner....

The room is not an external part of your ears, it is an internal part of your hearing apparatus...Then we must controls acoustic...

These are the 3 embeddings of any audio system....The important question is how to address the embeddings....

All the rest, vinyl versus digital, costly electronics,etc, are beside the essential points to create your own Hi-FI paradise... No money is needed, only listening experiments and homemade low cost materials...


Then the question of The OP dont make sense for me....By the way I am an audiophile and I listen to my 10,000 cd and files (classical, Jazz, Indian, Persian-Iranian mainly)....

The Russian Lada 4 by 4 I owned was my favorite car because I can go anywhere in the forest roads and not be afraid of destroying it at a high cost because this car cost peanuts 25 years ago and it was easy to repair it at very low cost.... :) Then a pleasure to ride.....I apologize for being a bit "provocative" here but the thread is a bit provocative also....


" Gives me your favorite road, I will gives you the corresponding car"- Groucho Marx