Should people with no turntable or reel to reel be considered audiophiles?


Just like those driving a Porsche SUV can join PCA (digital audio fans can join Audiogon) but are certainly not Porschephiles unless they also own a coupe (Panamera owners I guess gets a pass here).

Please respond with a yes or no and we'll tally a vote for the first 100 responses.

sokogear
DAC structure as it has two sides - digital and analog... if you say that all errors are corrected - in analog side some errors are made again. 
Maybe one day we'll have chip in the head and we can pass the ears until then nobody is perfect.  
Forget about the DAC for a second. Most of the errors are made in the transport and simply passed on to the DAC. Buffering the data won’t help because the errors occur when the laser tries to read the nanoscale data spiral. The errors occur in the first picosecond. The errors are buffered right along with everything else. I’m not saying some DACs are not better than others. It’s just that DACs aren’t smart enough to know when they’re being fed garbage. Garbage in/garbage out. 🔄
What condition is it, that no matter the discussion, you always bring up the same argument whether it applies or not?  I wasn't feeling quite 100% last night. It must have been that low pressure depression over Kansas. There is no way it was the beer and the excessive sun ... not to mention I don't live in Kansas because low pressure depressions cause one not to feel 100% so it must have been that.
Yes. It's the mindset that counts so any kindred soul with a smartphone and headphones is welcomed by me.
MP3 or FLAC.

Those days when it was mandatory for any audiophile to have a turntable may have gone, but even after 140 years of the gramophone, spinning vinyl has not lost its charm. 

Some diehards may argue that the true age of the audiophile was back in those days when amps and speakers had to be built from kits due to sheer cost.

They may have a point, or maybe not. Anyway, we salute you. You lead the way.

From that perspective it is a bit hard not to feel that these kids of today don't know they're born.

But wasn't it always?