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

@bretmcee:  "@n80 yeah, maybe just don’t use analogies my friend, because using one poorly does the exact opposite of what you are trying to achieve."

Actually, the analogies served their purpose perfectly well. Picking apart an analogy while failing to grasp the primary point is just as bad as a bad analogy.

"All of your analogies require a career in something or specific training. Audiophilia, by globally accepted definition, requires neither being a professional, nor any type of training."

All of my analogies require a certain level of experience. You focused on the wrong common denominator trying to support a point that is unsupportable.

"Also look at the definition of the word aficionado."

Actually, I think you are the one who needs to look it up since it includes elements of knowledge about the subject and a "fervent" pursuit of it. So lack of experience and first hand knowledge of a subject certainly disqualifies one as an aficionado. Listening through ear buds as you sole audio experience does not qualify one as an aficionado not matter how "enthusiastic" one is.

Wishing something is true is far different from the truth.

But in the end, I don't really care how you or vinny want to define audiophile. In your worlds where word meaning has no concrete value then anything goes. But it seems a bit ironic....no, hypocritical would be the better word, that you want to define audiophile any way you want but then have very specific, and hateful, labels for those you define as wealthy.

And you can't argue with someone who has their own definitions for everything.

You live in a magical world. I hope life is good there for you.

An Audiophile is someone actively pursuing means to increase the enjoyment gained from the reproduction of sound in ones own private listening space.

I think that pretty much sums it up and is inclusive of most points of view.

...oh and there is this: 
Merriam-Webster Dictionary

audiophileaudiophile noun
au·​dio·​phile | \ ˈȯ-dē-ō-ˌfī(-ə)l  \Definition of audiophile

: a person who is enthusiastic about high-fidelity sound reproduction

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/audiophile

Oh and this as well:

audiophilenoun [ C ] UK/ˈɔː.di.əʊ.faɪl/ US/ˈɑː.di.oʊ.faɪl/​

a person who is very interested in and enthusiastic about equipment for playing recordedsound, and its quality:

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/audiophile

...don’t see any entry-level requirements in them there definitions. Anyone?

Somebody here smells like an elitist, maybe even a fascist?

Funny how Americans (and much of the world) have so quickly forgotten the great evils we quashed in WWII and are now so willing, even excited to rekindle those destructive ideologies.

Money does strange things to peoples brains. I think Pink Floyd had a song about it.

@brettmcee:

"a person who is enthusiastic about high-fidelity sound reproduction"

Again that sets some level of unmeasured and unmeasurable ’enthusiasm’ as the criteria for being an audiophile. How much enthusiasm does it take brett? Just any little bit? No experience. No components. Heck, you don’t really even see a reference to music there, do you? In fact, it doesn’t even say anything about listening. Great definition.

I also think it is telling that you are now equating wealth with fascism. I suspect ’fascism’ is another term you don’t really grasp. It does not equate to authority or even power by the way.

And here is the ironic thing, you invoke WWII and the fascism that led to it yet you don’t seem to grasp how fascism actually works. Two of its primary tenets and practical applications are 1) labeling groups (as you have just done) in order to villainize and marginalize them and thereby suppress them and 2) limiting the free expression of ideas. The easiest way to do that, and the way historic fascists have done so, is to brand certain types of speech and expression as ’hate speech’ to coin a modern term, or as ’dangerous’. This ends all arguments against the fascist system before they can begin.

So maybe you should read up on how fascism works rather than just branding people with a term you don’t seem to understand...............or better yet, stop branding and labeling people............especially people you don’t know................and large groups with only one single common denominator...........you know...........like wealth.

And again the irony and hypocrisy are rich. Every one with more than you are wealthy, greedy fascists. Your material means don’t count against you....unlike those you villify......you are somehow superior. Oh the irony!

Any way, I'm off to my country home for a few days to suppress a peasant uprising so I'm done with this thread. As I said, arguing with people who make up their own definitions is fruitless as you and vinny have amply proven.