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

In that analogy, the musicians and producers are the race car team. The rest of us are just observers in the stands.


Otherwise, audiophiles are reduced to consumers of a particular type of product. How miserably impoverishing that POV is to me.


"Sorry you lost your house Frank, but hey, I don’t have to listen to your miserable take on cables since you no longer matter." is not a place I want to be.


As I posted in another thread, in the late 1950's, early 1960's audiophiles were not consumers, they were inventors, innovators, and enthusiasts.  DIY built this hobby.


Lets make this a big tent with room for different points of view and needs, as opposed to an expensive one.

"Otherwise, audiophiles are reduced to consumers of a particular type of product. How miserably impoverishing that POV is to me."

Sad as it may be, but that is the reality for most of the people out there. Unless you actually build your own equipment.

Do we actually believe that people spending more than $4k cannot be audiophiles? Or people spending more than $10k are all fools? Have no knowledge or any understanding of how "Hi-Fi" should sound. Lock those fools away, don't talk to them, don't listen, they are fools anyway. Besides that, we have all heard equipment costing in excess of $100k, and none of it sounded right.... How stupid they are.... (of course, we conveniently preclude the option that all of the above is stupid as well) Actually....we could go even further, establishing rules, let's say up to $ 2k for the complete high-end set up -> absolute audiophile, up to $3k still audiophile, but becomes questionable, the limit is at $4k, above that, ban them from the audiophile community.... 

Luckily, I really don't care too much how other's "judge" me, I spend many hours enjoying music the way I like it, in a room I've build with my own two hands, with equipment in it which I have worked for (I'm certainly not rich, so yeah, I have to save money for the equipment I have). Have enjoyed music for more that half a century now, and hope I get another 20-30 years to continue enjoying it...cheers

@douglas_schroeder 

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Dear Douglas_schroeder: you can be an audiophile under $10 k. : if you enjoy it, love the music that you play, spend hours with it, and makes you happy: than you are one !! Begin small, and after a while, you start looking for better things......That makes you a real one! Enjoy it!!!