Why audiophiles are different (explained with color)

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Τhe wounded saffron gatherer lady. Fresco from Akrotiri prehistoric settlement-17th c.BC. Santorini island Cyclades, Greece

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Do not want to spoil the party, but based on my experience with 'audiophiles' (that I know or have met) I would not suggest that they appreciate music more than others. Than again, I would not say that dissecting the reproduced sounds of hi fi systems ad nauseum have  necessarily any conection with love for music at all or that hi fi has any meaning if majority of your music collection is not unamlified music...

All people here a too different from one another to be  rounded up on a square and bagged up in the same bag....

Calling this bag "audiophiles" will  not  always  help....

 It is not because people are interested by improving their sound in many different way fron one another that they loose their individual character to suddenly transform in some mythical beasts named "audiophiles"


 In the same way human perceive colors the best if they name it first, it is for example scientifically proven that distinguishing a shade of color by name help and speed up tremendously any objects classifying task...

In audio it is the same, we must learn many words pertaining to sound...

 But you are right, music is not sound and many people here, not necessarily ONLY  "audiophiles" must learn to listen to music passing  over their habits and taste....

Sound is not necessarily music, and music manifest  through sound but is not sound....

My best to you....

Do not want to spoil the party...

Nah, don’t worry, you haven’t spoilt anything mate.
Interesting opinion you have formulated, your circle of audiophile friends are very much unlike mine, who regularly go listen to live music as well as listen on their systems, often with a glass of vino. I for one used to listen to live music at least once or twice a week for many many years, when I went Latin dancing.
I’ve even taught my wife how to dance, and we also enjoy listening to music that takes us back in the day so to speak. Roxy Music last week, was flavor of the weekend. Bryan Ferry, you should chill to him sometime..Take the edge off mate.

Opinions vary, I suppose. Fear not, our party is doing great thanks.

Agree with millercarbon with a twist  that explains human behavior and characteristics -  You can  take a horse to water but you cannot make it drink the water. You can take a horse to water but it may decide instead to take a whiz in the water trough. Finally, you can take an ass to water and if it drinks the water it surely doesn’t become a horse; it is still an ass.