I became an audiophile a potential unconscious one at 20 because i was under the supervision of my two friends for buying my gear ( Tannoy +Sugden), one married 15 years older than me who designed his own speakers box and his own friend and " mentor" who became mine too , "a 60 years old virgin" really, who lived in an apartment alone where no woman will ever dare to enter because his speakers were suspended over the floor from the ceilings , all floor in all pieces covered with audio gear parts and he kept his vinyl in a fridge wrapped which flabbergasted me and appeared to me as completely "nuts" ...😋
i could not know at the times i would became like these two after my retirement ...And with my 100 resonators as "nuts" as this "mentor" ... But i am not "virgin" ...😎
By the way my two children received something audiophile from me , but even if it is better compared to what they had it never ignite an audiophile fever in them ...
You cannot make a bear from a mice nor make a mice from a bear....