What Audio Religion have you converted others to successfully?

After reading all of this feedback I've come to the following, scientifically sound and immutable results, and, by inference, a conclusion:

Audiophilia conversion isn't real.  You either have it or you don't.  Therefore it is not environmental, therefore, it is genetic, and if you all don't want audiophiles to die out you need to make more babies.

Power cords matter. 

Erik,

Making babies isn't going to help--at least, not if you mean the literal kind. How many of us have children who are also audiophiles?

Still, I've found this a really interesting thread, despite some of the nay-sayers, so thanks. Perhaps it illustrates a potentially disconcerting thing: that we (we humans, not just we audiophiles) tend to enthuse about what reaches or touches us personally, not because it's "better," or even "valuable" in any objective sense, but just because we feel it.

IMHO, this feature of human experience explains why dreams are so powerfully moving to the person who has them, and so boring to anyone who has to listen to an account of them. Dreams "mean" nothing at all, in the vast majority of cases. They seem important only because they're so vividly experienced by the mind of the dreamer. When you wake from a dream, the quickly fading memory is of an "experience" every bit as vivid as it would be had you really experienced the events you dreamed, and this seems slightly miraculous, in light of the fact, inescapable upon waking, that none of it actually happened. A fantasy is nothing like a dream, really, except in its unreality. If we could "day dream" with as much vividness as we sleep-dream, we'd never leave the house. 

Well, what each of us experiences with our own audio equipment, and our own favorite music, is finally personal, subjective--and thus, of absolute importance to us, but fundamentally incommunicable to anyone else. And yet, if we like people, we want to share the delight. It very rarely succeeds.

Wasn't a conversion, but a reawakening. 20 or so years ago, I couldn't believe how good a $500 manual turntable improved the sound over a more expensive one I had that broke. Told my brother in law about it who still had his college system with bookshelf speakers and he bought the same one and couldn't believe it.

Then it was amps replacing a receiver, then a 4 component CD system (since disconnected), then speakers. I think that is when he inherited a nice chunk of change and kept upgrading piece by piece many times over and down a rabbit hole and thinks he knows more than me because he spends WAY more. Wouldn't keep his records vertical until he built a custom record shelf built into the wall. Doesn't own a record brush and doesn't take the lint off when he plays them, but bought a top of the line record cleaning machine. Doesn't own a power conditioner, but paid to have an electrician put his system on its own separate power feed.

Says he wants to keep things simple and then buys tubes because he hears they sound better but has issues with them and the heat they create because of the room ventilation (his office) so he had to put a fan in (also because he used to smoke cigars in there - my sister won that battle and I haven't smelled a cigar for a long time). Talk about ruining the sound....

Anyway, after this experience, I just try to tell people that vinyl sounds better, but you may be limited by selection so you should at least have it as an option, but people with no records are hard to convince, especially the youngsters who never knew life without an iPod. It is making a comeback because vinyl and record players are "in style" which I guess is good if creates some new audiophiles.

I don't like it when people say they want "the best" because there is no best and there are always qualifiers. Sometimes people with a ton of cash forget that, and usually they don't really care enough about it to LISTEN and do some research before they buy.

My religion is advising people the way i would have been advise here in the first place...

Recommending branded names in audio is fun if you like them, and not completely useless... But...