You know you're an audiophile if--

you take funeral leave from work because your amp died

I fit some of these -- cables especially. Never went truly high end on the interconnects -- just trying to match. As a result of the Audiogon auctions -- I have interconnects from Ridge Street Audio, Boulder Cable (with inline bybees) a host of bybees as well just for other applications and now -- have three more pairs of interconnects, plus one more digital cable on its way.

So yeah -- I guess I am an audiophile.

Not to mention that I just spent three hours determining the right dither setting on my Audio Alchemy DTI Pro32 to feed into my Muse Model 2 Plus DAC. Turns out -- the 20 bit setting (which is what the DAC was designed for) is best to my ears. Still -- I wouldn't have known except for the fact that I went through an audition of each setting multiple times in a double elimination tournament format.

Yeah -- I guess the hobby is where it's at.

When you start thinking of moving to be closer to a transformer on a quieter power line.

you have far more cables in a box than you have cables in your system.

OR

you have far more spare tubes than you have CD's.

OR

you spend four hours determining just the right bias setting for your amp.

OR

you spend another four hours eliminating all but one dither setting to feed your DAC -- and the one that remains is the one that the DAC was designed to uptake (20 bit).

you have far more cables in a box than you have cables in your system.
OR
you have far more spare tubes than you have CD's.

This just makes you a pack rat!! :)