In the field of medicine, the tongue in cheek definition of an "Expert" or "Specialist" is "someone who knows more and more about less and less, until he knows everything about nothing".
Raul, I definitely have no doubts about defining myself as a "music lover", but of course I have already disqualified myself as a TEA. On the other hand, I aspire to be my own TEA so that I won't have to seek out the opinions of a TEA, who after all will have different biases from my own. Among people I know, only one of whom is in any way an "audiophile", I am certainly regarded as a TEA; they bug me all the time about buying decisions. The one guy who IS an audiophile lives up the street and depends upon me to solve his electronics problems and for an opinion on what he should buy next. But I do think that loving music should be incorporated into the definition of a TEA. Otherwise, we have a mechanic.
Raul, I definitely have no doubts about defining myself as a "music lover", but of course I have already disqualified myself as a TEA. On the other hand, I aspire to be my own TEA so that I won't have to seek out the opinions of a TEA, who after all will have different biases from my own. Among people I know, only one of whom is in any way an "audiophile", I am certainly regarded as a TEA; they bug me all the time about buying decisions. The one guy who IS an audiophile lives up the street and depends upon me to solve his electronics problems and for an opinion on what he should buy next. But I do think that loving music should be incorporated into the definition of a TEA. Otherwise, we have a mechanic.