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

I guess firstly I'm a Porschephile and audiophile second  I just sold my 96 993 speedyellow 911 Turbo but still have a 78 911 SC  I've always been interested in well engineered sporty cars. When I was 24 I bought a BMW 2002ti and at that time no one knew what the heck it was. I owned many BMW M cars over the years and decided to try Porsche for a change. Turned out to be one hell of an investment!! Also in my early 20,'s I got tired of listening to my friends stereo systems that made my ears bleed from clipping! There must be somthing better and I ended up with a Marantz 2265B and Teac casset player and Cerwin Vega speakers
By the time the 90's rolled around l bought a VAC PA 80 80 and a ARC LS 15 that l still have today 
Over the years I've gone though many speakers and currently have a pair of Maggie's. 7's
and have recently added a Exogal comet plus DAC and Audiolab 6000N streamer. I also have a very good 5.1 system.Did I spend FU money, I don't think so, I'm I an Audiophile? I think so???  

Raul, where did you get a binary concept of human hearing? Inside the cochlea is an arrangement of ciliated cells that are set up very much like piano strings. When sound comes along at their intended frequency they release impulses that fire off axons in a continuous fashion. These impulses are handed off to the eight cranial nerve which travels to the parietal cortex where they are interpreted. There is absolutely nothing binary about it. 
We are all audiophiles or we would not be here  having this discussion.
We love music and we love the stuff that reproduces it. Take enough acid and it all sounds great. 
Make Love and forget about the war part. It sucks.   

"...they release impulses that fire off axons in a continuous fashion."

If impulses turn into a continuous something, do they need some kind of converter?

That’s qualifies. Everyone who loves a nice reproduced sound is. As is every individual and his or her system. The act of obtaining and maintaining a playback system to hear amazing music qualifies you. 

Dear @glupson : " action potential ", was in the information I posted.


""" Still, if anyone is keeping tabs, it is not continuous. """

More clear than clean water.

Btw, your question in the last post is exactly what I posted to that same gentleman. Not only MIT research but other top institutions/gentlemans talk about discrete electric impulse and about " all or nothin " condition and " off/onn " condition too.

@looscannon , you can named as you wish : binary or whatever the subject is that are electric impulses: undreds of impulses at very fast speed. An impulse is discrete. In no one of the several researchs out there no one speaked of non discrete impulses and please remember that for scientifics they only know no more than the 17% of the whole brain operation so it's not " healthy " that you can post with absolute certainty what you posted. Of course that due to my very high ignorance levels on the specific subject I can be wrong but exist the possibility that you can be wrong either.

Thank’s.

R.