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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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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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millercarbon
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An audiophile is one who will sit in the dark listening to the same track over and over again neurotically second-guessing real vs imagined differences, then claim to be doing all this out of a love of music.
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yogiboy
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This is the definition. I think we can all agree that anything more can get obsessively over the top!!

An audiophile is a person who is enthusiastic about high-fidelity sound reproduction. An audiophile seeks to reproduce the sound of a live musical performance, typically in a room with good acoustics. It is widely agreed that reaching this goal is very difficult and that even the best-regarded recording and playback systems rarely, if ever, achieve it.
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