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
Absolutely not. Audiophiles are gadget freaks. The turntable is the ultimate gadget surpassed only by the automobile.
glupson
"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."
Perhaps it would be a lots of jitter. Wait, it already looks like jitter. Nevermind, it was jitterkait’s EEG.

What a dumfukker! 🤗

looscannon
Absolutely not. Audiophiles are gadget freaks. The turntable is the ultimate gadget surpassed only by the automobile.

>>>>>You obviously never got into the whole CD tweaking craze.
rauliruegas
" 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.

>>>>Knowledge is what’s left over after you subtract out everything you forgot from school which was probably no great shakes anyway. He not busy being born is busy dying. - Bob Dylan

mahgister
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 ?

>>>>>Excellent example of stove piping, not paying attention to what others are doing or ignoring the advancements by others. Stove piping of information and systems 🏭 produces smokestacks of information growing to the sky but no way to verify or validate each person’s unique information since there’s no interaction with the outside world or cross pollination 🐝 Thus, people are inclined to believe IMPLICITLY in their own handiwork and dismiss the handiwork of others. Also know as the Not invented Here Syndrome. That’s why intelligence networks require multiple sources, to avoid stove piping. 🏭

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