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What are the hallmarks of a serious audiophile? Just curious.

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Music is "The Gospel" from man/woman to man/woman. It is a labor of Love from a few for all to enjoy.

"fag an benlach" Gaelic for " "Clear the Way" and the Bagpipes play on the Virginia battlefield. Singin’ cryin’ and dyin’. "fag an benlach" "CLEAR THE WAY"

The passion that sent them, brother against brother is the same passion in music.

WARS were fought over German vs Italian opera.

The greatest sign of all is "PASSION" in anyone’s PHILIA.

No mark for the one who is silent, speak up. The only thing between anyone’s passion is the fear of fear itself.

"I would rather you be, HOT or COLD, but lukewarm I will spit you out of my mouth" Author GOD...

PASSION, commitment and sharing.

Regards

I dunno. My sense is Audiogon is gonna do whatever they do. This is tail wagging dog isn’t it? They don’t make money from the forum except I guess from advertising?

I think there is still a broad, worldwide audience for this site and occasionally see cross posts from other fora posted here. Somehow, I can manage to navigate through or past the contentious nonsense, but the real loss is a disappeared thread that got "deleted" and had good info until it turned into a train wreck.

My experience with other sites is that the stuff isn’t actually deleted, it is just concealed or "unpublished." But it would take time and effort to go back through those and curate them to restore them without the "bad" posts. And going forward, it requires a degree of moderation that simply isn’t happening-- another user pointed that out to me. That’s why, unless something is completely outrageous, I will not flag a post. And some stuff can go on for pages that is irrelevant to audio. I hate this saying, but "it is what it is." 

The culture of a board is made up by its users. The rules or terms of use are really there for the rule abiding in my experience. And it’s been a while since I looked at the TOU but it could be stronger. However, it comes back to enforcement and I don’t think A-Gon has the moderator resources. Perhaps with a clear set of rules and some volunteer mods, they could do better. I dunno. I do know that anyone who volunteers to be a moderator shouldn’t-- kind of like being the hall monitor.

I don’t see where the forums are stopping anyone from being serious audiophiles. It’s actually much easier to get really good sound these days than ever. So in that sense more successful audiophiles than ever. Times change. Gotta get with the times. Just keep it civil and be respectful of others! That should never change.  No need to never be satisfied in order to join the club. 

“ you don’t need to even own a system, it’s more a state of mind and attitude.

one of the most active passionate serious audiophiles i know does not own a system. but he is all in on the hobby and the music.’

Exactly so ! … Recently highlighted by Denny and his minions espousing that anyone not displaying a series of glossy images of their audio vanity project are not worthy of making comment on this forum …

@onhwy61 Dunno exactly what would constitute an acid test for “ serious audiophile “…. but this is a mighty fine physical enunciation….