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

yes.

I owned a 911 Cab, traded it in on a Cayenne, then that a Touareg, but I’ve never stopped appreciating the art of the Porsche.

There goes Raul again with the personal attacks....I’m reading brains are continuous and digital is not. Why not match how the brain hears?

Still vote yes the digital guys can still be considered audiophiles who listen to files, not music.

Panamera, Cayenne and Macan owners do not get the pass.
Actually even the new model owners who are posers for most part.

I can tell you with certainty after close to 20 years that Porsche owners totally changed and not for the better...

As for audiophiles I think the bottom line should be enjoying music.
Fort the most part it became too much about the gear, details and tweaks and very little;le focus on actual enjoyment of music...

Sancho, that is an unfortunate generalization. I know several 911 owners who are great people and are always helping each other with their cars. There is also a very high rate of audiophileism in this group. Real Audiophiles like helping each other constructively with their systems and if you are honest this means pointing out some gear that was not thought out well. This is particularly true with turntables, tonearms and speakers.
You have to have a high level education to design electronic gear but I'm afraid any one can cram drivers in a box or pen a tonearm and turntable.

Raul, I was not talking about conduction down the axon. I was talking only about the conduction between neurons which occurs in the synapse by trading off charges molecules called neurotransmitters. The action potential in the neurons axon is an entirely different process which ends with the release of those neurotransmitters. Each neuron has one axon but ends in tens of synapses which communicate with other neurons. It is all a very analog process and in no way resembles digital signal processing.