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
These worthless threads get the most responses.  I wonder what that means.
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Nobody wants to listen to a bunch of mediocre crap. So, cut me some slack, Jack! 
That people haVE NOT NOTHING BETTER TO DO.

lewm, almost all is worthless, not all.

R.
I, for one, don't own a Porsche (Or a Merc, or a BMW, or what have you). I do have a collection of some 350LP's, but no TT...Does this mean I am not an Audiophile? That 'I am too lazy' to spin Vinyl? Not by a long shot. I enjoy my 400 CD's collection, and I have arranged myself a very modestly-priced set-up, which consists of a $25 USB Splitter, connected to a USB port at the back of my PC, from which a (cheap and cheerful!) RCA cable is connected to an (equally cheap!) USB cable. The entire setup cost me about $90. Now, before anybody feels the need to ridicule me, all I have to do is type, in Cortana, the name of any concert/album/song I wish to listen to, and I stream YouTube files (Yes,  I know, some of them are compressed, lossy, blah blah...) Truth is, most of the time, I enjoy an SQ that equals that of a modestly-priced TT, and often-times equal that of my (admittedly dated) CD Player.