What is an audiophile? Are you an audiophile?

You are right for sure!

It takes me almost 2 years non stop experiments because i am retired...

And it takes a dedicated room...

But i spoke here to the majority of people who think they listen DIRECTLY to their gear, like the RCA dog ,😁😊 oblivious of their room HUGE impact...

If i save the money throwing for only one dude, my posts will be useful, especially if you  already own costly gear to begin with and wanted to upgrade IGNORING like most people do, the powerful impact acoustic can made after crossing some line separating high end from ultra high end design  in particular...

Acoustic especially here is the key...

Nobody spoke so categorically about acoustic than me here, because for most people acoustic is ONLY THE ICING on the cake... In reality acoustic is the main recipe... Any basically good gear will do unbewknownst to most because of marketing electronical design consumerism and gear fetichism ... I dont say here that my vintage Sansui at 100 bucks rival the 6000 buck of the Berning zotl amplifier... I only say that acoustic is the geatest impactful factor in general and most of the times...nevermind the diffrence between my vintage Sansui and the improved ZOTL technology

My depest respect to you....

@mahgister

Have you ever tried to factor in the cost of the time you spent perfecting your system in this equation? How much would it cost someone to hire you to use your knowledge, patience and the sheer man-hour time to make their room acoustically nimble like yours? Maybe $50 an hour times 1000 hours? In the USA we have a saying: time is money, think about it. We all sacrificed for what we are passionate about. Money, time, relationship, there is a cost associated with it. $500 was just your initial investment, the real one is much more.

Not sure your assumption is really correct

it wasn‘t an assumption, it was something he actually stated himself, he was very pleased that his system had that characteristic

@pesky_wabbit

Will what can I say. The guy’s an idiot. 😁 and he's still could be considered audiophile 

Given the time I spend learning about gear and listening to music I better be. 

An audiophile is a person who has a reference sound for music that represents their most enjoyable listening and attempts to get as close to that reference when reproducing music electronically.  For me, the sound of acoustic instruments and human voice live is my reference. My goal is to come as close to reproducing that sound as possible with equipment I can afford to buy.

Others may have difference reference sounds. That is purely subjective.  The key for an audiophile is the quest for reproducing music that meets that reference.