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

I guess Raul doesn't think "stupid" is a personal attack. I won't respond to any more personal attack posts.

I like discussions/arguments over bits & bytes versus continuous sound and I'll try one more analogy to see if you digital only guys get it.

By no means am I a watch expert, but I own one automatic watch and one quartz watch (for when the automatic is getting serviced every 7 years or so). Over the long haul (or weekly or monthly), the quartz is more accurate, lower maintenance, typically less expensive, etc. But here's the thing....time does not move in discrete seconds, it moves continuously, just like the seconds hand of an automatic watch. Turntables are automatic watches, CDs, or anything stored in a file are defined by individual 1s or 0s. Not continuous.

Before you throw up in a response, I voted YES, someone could be considered an audiophile if they don't own a turntable (forget the caveats).

I use plumber brass caps and copper tape and I transform all acoustic in my room….

This is audiophile madness turned real....

For the cost of a few bananas.....

Owning a turntable or a dac is way less important than the acoustical sphere of your room....

sokogear,

You are like a 5 year old child, making an analogy to a literal rocket scientist, on how rockets works ... To people who actually know what they are talking about, that is how you sound. Does that analogy bother you?

“ Porsche 914 people were bullied....( now ) I get people coming up to me extolling the virtues of the 914 and these are people I remember telling me 15 years ago they weren’t any good “

Pano May 2020 on the 50th birthday for the 914

Einstein never mocked the physics knowledge of his neighbour, his plumber did.....  :)