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

So use the .5 meter cable instead of the 1.5 M one?

Sokohgear I've been accused because of the extent I have labored to acquire a  high end system.  It's a putdown of my hobby.  It probably happens to all hobbyists.  

Grado has made quite a few high end and mid-fi moving iron cartridges.  I've heard some very fine moving magnet cartridges.  An audiophile could definitely own either of these non moving coil cartridges for a high quality analog system.

FYI-I read a Q&A on Van den hul’s web site recommending shortest interconnects, so I swapped out my 1.5 M one for  my .5M one. Had to move everything around and unplug it all. Van den hul says every time any cables are moved the wires have to settle down, so keep your cleaning ladies away from it all. I’ve told mine repeatedly not to touch anything, but they can’t keep their hands off thinking they have to dust. They ruined my brother in laws awhile back and he had to replace his cartridge.

This'll probably stir up a fuss: audiophiles are music freaks who have developed a facility for listening to the sound character of the intervening electronic components--when they choose to.

@geoffkait 

>>>>I totally agree. The human bean brain works through impulses. Many audiophiles hear via impulses through the ears but separated In between by the vast emptiness of space.

Oh my I am still laughing 

this thread went from good to bad and back more times than usual.