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


One group should not be allowed to monopolize the term above another as their own status symbol. you i and anyone else who likes audio can be considered an audiophile regardless of the size of your bank account. 
vinny55
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
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!!! 
I think of an audiophile just as the word says. Audio music collector as a hobby. Usually fanatic about sound purity. But not all audiophiles have exeptional ears.  To love music you do not need to be an audiophile.  You can be audio enthusiast without being a fanatic, and still own nice audio equipment to play the music you love. Just my take on it.
People should not construe that I am saying you cannot be an audiophile under $10K. Note my previous comments about when I was a severe budget audiophile. 13 years old, Lloyds all-in-one system! Audiophile in spirit! I used the unit so much that one day it began smoking, burned the sucker up! No reliability back then!  LOL  Was I actually an audiophile? Hardly, barely, not really, just a smidgen. I had the impulse, but a LONG way to go!     :)