You know you have audiophile system when...


The definition of an audiophile systems is truly unknown, but recently after dabbling with tube rolling, power cables, and interconnects my system achieved a level where its clarity was no longer what grabbed my attention. Instead, I was distinctly hearing the bloom and decay of every note in the music. It’s just a different level that I believe has me listening to music differently.  It translates into greater dynamics and voices and instruments having more distinct vibrato characteristics.

mceljo

Do you ever think that most of it, the adjectives you used to describe your system are nothing more than a concerted effort on your part to hear those things, aspects of sound in a wishful thinking sort of way?

 

It is true if someone have no idea about what is the acoustic definition of sound description, not an  audiophile one,  an acoustic one...

When you know what the notion  means it is because you know how to create them in an optimal way with the gear you own from your speakers/room/ears relation...

Simple...

What is listener envelopment/source width ratio and how to create it and improve it in  small room? it is a technical question which anser differ in applied  solution for each room...

No adjectives needed here, machanical acoustic control and passive material treatment balance will do....

I can say my S.Q./price ratio is astounding, this is an adjective only, but the way i reach it with acoustic is what gives meaning to my sentence...

I dont trust any reviewer now...

They never thanks acoustic but the gear change they are motivated to speak about in the same  room for years which is never optimized for a specific system ...

Anybody can buy a good amplifier, one he can afford and say it is a marvel...

But no amplifier will work marvel in a bad room... Most room if not bad are not acoustically optimal at all not optimized for a specific audio system...

Then i trust acoustic and psycho-acoustic over any  reviewer which are sellers anyway nothing more...

 

 

I hate the tag Audiophile. Who coined the phrase? 

It's all about musical entertainment, nothing more, nothing less.

When you listen to music & get lost in it, forgetting you're listening to reproduction equipment. That's what its all about......

Audiophiledom is a club. As Groucho Marx said, I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member. Nobody want to be called an audiophile. Go into any record store that sells used records - the owners have one word audiophilenut. They don't bother to separate it into two.

Seriously..."a person who is especially interested in high-fidelity sound reproduction". It can be any system or no system.

jonwolfpell has it right.

But how difficult is that for some of us to achieve?