An Audiophile is Anyone Who Loves Audio Regardless of Monetary Status. Agree?

Bose is phenomenal. It actually made people buy things because they sounded better. First Bose Wave Radio presentations were all about quality of sound, including some sort of blind test/evaluation.

So, if you have a Bose radio in the kitchen, let the chef enjoy being an audiophile. Unless cooking is your hobby, too.

All people are endowed with an inalienable right to the pursuit of audiophilia.   :)

How does that work for everyone? 

Some people are more endowed than others. 

Nearly all of my equipment was inherited from an audio dealer friend who passed away in 1998.  I consider myself an audiophile since 1973. My inherited used equipment that I'm using now continues to blow away myfriends. Purchased new, this all component system would come in about $12K.  I'm ever grateful that my friend left this system to me, especially the Spacial Coherence preamp, of which there are only 400 hand built units.  It was $1200 new in 1979, and I just saw a used one for sale on a high end audio site for $1600. It blows away preamps costing many thousands more.  It's too bad that the cost of entering the audiophile market looks to be cost prohibitive, except for those with disposable income. I don't have a typical 'surround' system. My system is an 'ambient loop' system, with the rear set up to extract the ambience that is in all stereo recordings, but can't be extracted with a 2 speaker system. 5-1 systems might be able to extract the ambience, but it's still not the same as extracting the ambience that's already there in every stereo recording you own, waiting to be sent to your rear speakers set up in an ambient loop, using an old Dynaco Quadapter QD1. To be able to hear a singer take a breath as he or she steps up to the microphone, adds so much depth to the sound stage, it's incredible.  It be able to hear fretting is priceless, as it adds depth that normally cannot be heard. 

The premise is what drives quality headphone & headphone amplifier sales. The sticky (but most intriguing?) part of your premise is delineating the difference between a music lover & an audiophile, their intersection points & where & when they overlap. It almost becomes like theologians arguing the finer points of the higher good they’re trying to find evidence of. It’s there but tracing it back as purely as possible to its source is quite the exercise. i.e. Musicians often enough do not need great equipment as their love of the music transports them on even mediocre equipment. I didn’t say always but often enough. How much of that purity of love of music do we need or can we live without? Do we even want to and to what degree do we convince ourselves we’re trying? All of us rationalize this to a reasonable degree we tell ourselves - all while disproving the way someone else is going too far in ways we think we’re not. Both sides are inevitably right - but to what degree?

Sticky question worth investigating to the degree one believes the inner most truth really will set you free. The short hand for figuring it out is answering: Do you want the truth to be a certain way more then you want to passionately explore what it is - regardless of where that leads?
Please understand I’m not saying it’ll be necessarily be an uncomfortable answer - but at least a little of that is bound to creep in. Or not?