You know you're an audiophile if--

Ok I got new one I'm just finding out about. You have an extra pair of speakers - good speakers. You were going to sell them because you already have two systems. You decide you can't do that and start thinking, what amp and equipment do I need to buy to set up a third system. And in what room.

You start wondering, if it would be possible to create a device that could actually clean one side of a Record, and play the other side at the same time. O.K.- who makes and manufactures it, I know that I wasn't the first one to think of it! Where can I get one, and it better cost more than atleast $5000.00 or it is not even worth concideration!

I think the "audiophile" thing is because most of us are "project focused" (I would say a "man" thing, but I know there are women "audiophiles" out there). I spend more time reading/buying for the "project" while the music plays in the background, than "listening". I know the music / system is good when it distracts me from the "project".

besides your main 2 channel system, you have a 5.1 in the living room, and NAD/Athena system in your wife's office and wake up to a JBL clock radio. Then you buy a 2nd home and put a nice stereo in one bedroom, and some nice little Kef's under the TV.

"You buy an album and clean, then play, the sides in numerical order."

Actually, probably just buying an album alone these days qualifies you but, yes, the cleaning and playing parts are likely then as well.

Also, if you actually spend time reading a thread called "You know you're an audiphile if-"....