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

Of course digital is better than analog 🔜 in principle 🔙 That’s kind of the whole point. Hel-loo! It’s space age technology, you know, quantum mechanics and nanotechnology and all that jazz 🎶  🤗

An ordinary man has no means of deliverance.

I think it boils down to my stuff, is better than that stuff....
Whatever that stuff might be...It may be your stuff, my old stuff, or somebody else’s stuff.

It could be NEW stuff, or even different stuff, ay?

Music, no ears required. 

It should be AUDIO-AGAPE it’s not conditional. Just the love and pursuit of music, not more, not less.

The word phile is from the word Philo, meaning to excite, passion, infatuation, a type of love.

When adding anything to "what it means to be an audiofiler", it no longer
carries the same meaning...

Sound lover.. got it.. Not Turntable, and certainly not Reel to Reel...
I think less than 1% on these forums even know what one looks like. Much less how expensive it is to run that stuff, talk about old hat...
I still have a few reels around.. Most any CD will out do mine.
It’s old stuff...

You don’t join the club, you ARE the club....Your own little "CLUB"

Heck you can even have your own uniforms. Me I just wear a HAT..
That’s it just a hat....

I was wondering why the chickens quit laying eggs.. Vet told me I had to wear clothes, I was scarin’ the HELL out of the chickens..

The Rooster, was a little envious too. Sorry Bud...(that’s the rooster’s name)

Regards

See oldhvymec, we can agree. The format, how much you spent, etc. matters not to being an audiophile, its about the passion for your own little piece of audio nirvana.

We must discuss things that matters, except for personal preference and anecdotal subjectives histories, always interesting for sure, but without consequences for our own history most of the times; I think that, for me personally, the embeddings of any audio system are of the utmost importance for the experience, even more important than technological engineering details and design.... Why ?


Because be it for my actual vintage s.s. Sansui amplifier, or for my future ZOTL dreamed Berning tubes amplifier, a contemporary technology, the embeddings are the most important factors for using any of the 2 at their optimal potential in the best environment, never mind their technological particular design....The same thing is true for speakers and dac or turntables.....Even for headphones but in a lesser way....

Vibrations-resonance controls, electrical house grid controls, and acoustical controls, are the 3 key factors for any gear of any design....

Dear @cd318 : Exist a lot of imnformation over the internet in the same subject.  Human been has a digital brain that's why the ADC in our inner ears and those electric impulses for comunication inside the brain and all over the body along chemical substances/neurotransmitters.

Btw, in what thread do you posted the link?

R.