You know you're an audiophile if--

yea if u phile the audio

I was given this nick 27 years ago voluntary 'christened' by my close friends compared to English Queen that is being inagurated as a matter of fact of a Royal family.
It's a nature of people to select leader after all.

Yes, I know the root word Czarivey.

In English autocrat means, an absolute ruler, implies a despot, dictator.
At one time I had access to German Army film archives.
Worse thing I have ever seen, and I was a combat infantry man myself, was Nicholas II sending 12-13
year boy soldiers across open fields against German machine
gun emplacements. Many had no rifles but were instructed to
pick up ones from the dead.
One clip showed a German gunner with tears steaming down his face as he slaughtered them.Still have nightmares of it.

Everybody knows, comes from Caesar, Sid Caesar.

Schubert, Czar isn't exactly Russian autocrat, it comes from C-zar or Ceasar which is somewhat Latin.

You keep wondering if, indeed, you really ARE an audiophile, and if so, what precisely does that mean?

Czar, I may disagree but I never get offended.
25 years in Europe gave me European sensibilities.
Any bunch of Germans, Italians or Frenchman can argue like
hell all day and half the night and all are still good friends ready to do the same tomorrow.
Americans are much more sensitive because they spend their
whole lives in self-censorship and fear.

Wires costing thousands of dollars makes sense.

Don't be offended pal, I know Santana sucks as perhaps whole rock'n'roll that have nothing to do with music.

You're reading this thread.

Well its better than a Russian autocrat.
Actually, I'm more than a little red-faced about it.
With just a brief perusal I thought this was just a bunch
of dumb rockers on here who wouldn't know Schubert from Santana.
Wrong again.

also when moniker is after famous composer :-)

Briliant Ozzy-LOL.

You check this thread when there are new postings.

You start wondering if telluric lines have an effect on your stereo.

you renove 5 rooms in your basement.
1 worshop to do your renovation,
1 datacenter for your music server,
1 air conditioning system and filtration,
1 for your cd collection
and 1 for your listening room...

Alpha, one on the most insightful comments I've seen on hear.
I've done it more than once-LOL .

You give your old stereo components to your (grown) children so you have to buy new stuff! Because you hate the idea of them having to listen to ordinary stuff, apparently. I sleep well at night knowing I have perpetuated the hobby by infecting my son in law with Audiophilia, he's got it bad!

You spend $2999.00 for a pair of speakers and tell your wife they cost well under $3000.00, and that price even included shipping.

Plus, you'll sell the old speakers for close to what the new ones cost, so the difference is really only a few dollars.

You don't go to live concerts, sit home and listen to
few CDs and/or vinyls that sound perfect as reference for next upgrade or tube-rolling;
each of your component has a dedicated line including iPad;
you enjoy more sound than music or musicians therefore you don't need to explore yourself onto other music except your few CDs of Diana Krall.

1) you own VTL Wotans and love them.
2) you want to get another pair- for biamping.
3) you knock out all the non-loadbearing walls in your home to give your Magnepans the room they really need.
4) All prospective home purchases are evaluated vis-a-vis the potential listening rooms. (I know someone ELSE mentioned it... But I'm going through it too.)
5) You buy two phono preamps (in addition to having a built-in phono stage in one of your preamps) before you have purchased a turntable
6) You have more tube amps than you have fingers.
7) You start building your own gear...
8) Audiogon becomes your porn site of choice!
9) Robert Plant asks you if you know who has the Extended Plinth VPI Aires with the Lyra Cart. that's posting Led Zeppelin Hi-Res MP3's on Torrent and YouTube sites, and you say you don't, but if you find yourself in the fellow's listening room, you promise that the Lyra will have to be shipped to Soundsmith for a new cantilever...

You know you're an audiophile if-your biggest fear is when you die the wife will sell your hi-fi at the price you told her it cost. :D

When you have a reoccurring nightmare about a component you foolishly sold. Over....and....over....and...over.

- you get art prints made out of audiophile approved acoustic panels

- you own a tube tester, freq analyzing mic, or tone generator

Mapman wrote,

""after changing anything possible - start playing with fuse direction ..."

How true. Anything possible.

Sadly, I lie to experiment with anything possible for sure, but I do not have time to waste, so I choose my experiments carefully."

Hey, Mapman, I'm pretty sure this is not supposed to be a serious thread. You can go back to your BarcoLounger now.

If you start telling white lies to your loved ones to snick that new gear in to your house without getting caught.

For us, this obsession is quest for happiness it-self...
On push of few buttons, we are transported to the never never land of nirvana...Better than drugs - one agoner said ! (and safer and cheaper)

"after changing anything possible - start playing with fuse direction ..."

How true. Anything possible.

Sadly, I lie to experiment with anything possible for sure, but I do not have time to waste, so I choose my experiments carefully.

I'm sure those who experiment with fuses do not consider it to be a waste either, whatever the results.

...you label all of your CDs either IP (in polarity) or OOP (out of polarity).

after changing anything possible - start playing with fuse direction ...

You know you're a cheap audiophile if-- You are in the women's make-up isle trying to find the specific blush brush you read about in the Audiogon forum that is great for cleaning your CDs or LPs before/after listening.

Yeah, and she says that when I die all of my equipment will be out on the street!
I'll show her, and out live her...

Ozzy, did you tell her that? ;-)

I know new purchases are a problem. My wife often says, "I thought you were done buying all that."
I don't know what ever gave her that idea. It must be a wife's thing.
As long as I can hear and access the music, I'll never be done...

LOL on True's post.

You are gripped with terror when you see your wife looking at the certified check receipt that fell out of your pocket (happened yesterday).

you know what a Fozgometer is.
you're reading this posting.
you've uttered the phrase "they just don't get it" either audibly or under your breath.
you're wife has said "I'm getting a little worried about you".
you know what audigon is.

You never throw away "spent" tubes.

You make anyone who enters your listening room wear a blindfold.

...you keep an extra fuse in your waistband.

My wife and I were hiking in a nearby nature preserve yesterday. It's spring and that's when all creature's spirits turn to the impulses of mating. Midways through the hike, we crossed paths with one particularly large male alligator who was calling for a mate and staking out his turf. The sound was so deep and intense, we both thought it was heavy machinery at first. Sounded like a ore hauler diesel running at lower than idle speed with no muffler system! Of course, I immediately marveled at how deep and pure the bass was and how even the best subwoofer systems would have difficulty reproducing it accurately.

Re-reading positive reviews to assure yourself the gear you acquired is still worthy of inclusion or else ................................

No audio nightmares/dreams yet. Don't get me started.

I find a discussion about the potential benefits of tibetian bowls on audio sound interesting. I guess that's it, I am no doubt an "audiophile" in addition to a Yogi.

Dreams, yes, last night I dreamt that my partner "surprised" me by getting rid of our Aerials and Sonus Fabers and replacing with lots of in ceiling speakers. I was livid - maybe that was a nightmare!!!

Sorry Bill_k. By the time I went to respond to this thread I forgot the rest of the pieces. Lol. On a similar note, I constantly see things related to audio in every day life. I'll look at a dinner plate at a certain angle and see a woofer in my mind. Or, one time my niece had one of those bendable plastic straws and the way it was bent looked like a tonearm. Ha!

When you buy new furniture more for the beneficial effects it has on room acoustics than aesthetics. Here's a post I just made on another thread:

"Buy a Raymore & Flannigan leather recliner loveseat coach. It fixed an annoying room bass node problem. Plus it doubles as a back messager because the absorbed bass energy vibrates the whole coach. :)"

Devilboy - I've also had some audio related dreams, but you've got it really bad! Curious if you remember what speaker the King was???

I had a dream last night I was playing chess and all the chess pieces were miniature speakers. The queen was an Estelon speaker. The knight was a Wilson Sasha and the rook was a vintage quad ESL.

The time comes to clean the carpets in your home, and you will not under any circumstances move your speakers.