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

You used to be able to change Wikipedia, but it’s been years since I’ve been able to update part of a page (correct & sited or not) and it wasn’t immediately moderated and deleted within minutes. They seem to require very reputable sources, which is why n80 would probably easily convince them to change it. 😉😏

Would AudiogoN forum be considered a "very reputable source"? There are no better ones on this topic anyway. The only problem would be that this reputable source is in disarray of opinions.

There has been a lot of "it does not have to be expensive" statements here. Can anyone give some examples that she/he thinks most of the people could recognize? Maybe not $1000 vs $1100 difference, but something more obvious. $1000 vs. $5000 or something in that direction.

I have never heard an item that was more expensive than the other one while sounding worse. I have not heard it on the $200-300 level and I have not heard it on much higher (price) level. It may be bias or whatever else, but it has, so far, been the rule. More expensive sounded better to me.

Please give us examples so we know what we are really talking about.

Although I have not been to the various big audio shows, I have often heard attendees make statements about room comparisons. Some would note that the multi-million dollar room did not sound as good or better than another room with electronics costing much less than 200k. I guess maybe the room acoustics make all the difference ??
I don’t think having either a budget system or multi million dollar system would make someone an audiophile.

I have never heard an item that was more expensive than the other one while sounding worse.

Jesus, really?? Because I have. I’ll just start a firestorm if I start naming labels. I’ve heard much worse, or equal with a wide discrepancy in prices.


I'm talking about gear within similar performance envelopes here.  I'm not comparing a small desktop monitor to a mega speaker.