What is an audiophile? Are you an audiophile?

Several posters gave you the REAL MEANING of " Audiophile ". Once you all establish and understand this meaning, you will see, YOU ALL ARE....The End ! Enjoy ! MrD.

You know you are one when you own multiple copies of the same album in hopes that one will be THE pressing....also when you have taken over half of your wife’s living room, and when your house Is stuffed to the gills with cd’s, Lp’s, Cassettes, mini discs, etc...as well as extra equipment not even being used. I’m either an Audiophile or a Horder, or maybe a little of both...I'm most likely more so a music lover, all types, as I generally don't Always care about the quality, ie record surface noise, tape hiss, etc...I can still find a way to just enjoy what I'm playing at the time. 

Who cares is absolutely correct. If you dont spend enough, according to some, you are not an audiophile. If you spend too much you are not an audiophile. I like music and I like the way a better system brings me closer to my music. Call me what you want but if my standards and system goals differ from yours that shouldnt change this definition.

"...the owners of an awful lot of high end gear end up dissecting the sonics of the music, rather than enjoying it as an immersive experience"

Yes. . . and furthermore, they will swear up and down that it's the music they care about, first and foremost!  

I am not a gear fetichist and not an obsessed upgrading fool chasing and "tasting" sounds ...

Then i am not a failed audiophile....

But i know that ACOUSTIC and PSYCHO-ACOUSTIC science can help a speakers/room to deliver a marvellous sound/music experience...

I listen an opera right now after some jazz...

What ami I ?

A succeeding audiophile who has studied acoustic instead of reading audio reviewers of gear and will never need to upgrade his low cost but very well chosen system...

Because acoustic has nothing to do with "taste" about gear, i listen music not sound of amplifiers or dac or even speakers....

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And read me correctlly, i perfectly know that any piece of gear sound different, but this difference is DWARFED by the huge improvement with acoustic control OPTIMIZATION over your Speakers/room...

Being a wise Audiophile dont means that the ratio S.Q./price is meaningless it is the opposite....It is the main meaningful parameter all over the journey...

«A piece of tubular wood with holes is an acoustic instrument and knowing how it work in different caverns is enough to figure out all acoustic»-Anonymus acoustician

«Acoustic is a prehistoric phenomena » -Anonymus acoustician