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What's your definition of an audiophile?

Our love of audio is really basic biology with the brains dopamine reward system. The more we get pleasure with something the more we seek it out for the brains dopamineric response. Better sounding music equal more reward. MUSIC is our high! I tried to be a little eccentric from a science perspective. Alan Parsons cynically said "Audiophiles don’t use their equipment to listen to music. Audiophiles use your music to listen to their equipment”. Let me hear your definition


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millercarbon
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Audiophiles use their equipment as an excuse to buy still more equipment to graph the sound their equipment makes. Then still more equipment to change the graphs their equipment made. Audiophiles love a pretty graph. 

Not as pithy as Parsons. But you know its true.
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kijanki
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Audiophile is a man who is afraid that after his death his wife will sells audio equipment for as much as he told her he paid for it.
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stereo5
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An audiophile is a person who is more in love with the gear than the music. They constantly upgrade but never spend any real time listening to what they have. They are always lusting over that next expensive piece and get more pleasure from the anticipation and buying than listening. They most likely have a very tiny selection of music to listen to.

I was that guy some 30 odd years ago
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dekay
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The mindset of a true audiophile is...

"If I liked it I would be disappointed."

DeKay


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mijostyn
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An audiophile listens to equipment. A music lover listens to music. You could be either or both. Most of us are both. Some of us are hard to figure out. 
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