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
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.
"  I guess my brain is continuous.. "

Yes because your knowledge level is extremely low about. As always you are wrong and I can't understand how you can improve a little on that knowledge extremely low levels you have.

R. 
The brain activity of a normal person measured by an EEG (Electroencephalogram) shows up as wavy (I.e., continuous) lines. Perhaps the brain activity of someone who listens to a lot of digital music would show up as a series of blocks on the EEG graph. Would that mean he’s a block head? 🙄 
People mix the brain global activity with readings on one level with one set of measuring apparatus and improvise themselves neurologist .... I will not go with the qualia problem here for sure.... Good luck for explaining EEG here Geoffkait...


The brain is not consciousness and dont generate it, and the brain is not analog or digital only, the brain present some characteristics of these 2 without being any of these 2...


« My brain is a fractal antenna» -Groucho Marx

«It is only microtubules, idiot»  Harpo Marx