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

For the cable problem, it is the pons asinorum of audio matters....No comment....

BobbyDid - How is a watch an analogy to rocket science? Talking about time moving continuously? Are you debating that point? At least a 5 year old child has curiosity and is open minded .... that's not a personal attack so I am responding to you.

Rockets are big fun, until they aren’t...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M7wBN-U2KXI

this was a double whammy as teams I led or were on built the Satt and the Satt fairing....

Sokogear I dont know if you are a neighbour or a plumber but he is not Einstein....And I am not Christ.... :)

For me being audiophile is not collecting costly gear, or debating about cables, or about digital versus analog, but more about improving the embeddings triple dimensions of any audio systems at any price, analog or digital....I prefer to use homemade cheap methods with guided listening experiments and they are very effective anyway....That is my clear answer to your question....