You know you're an audiophile if--


You just got a pair of speakers you can barely move yourself (inverse proportionality with age probably too)

The first house you bought cost less than your current stereo investment (ditto)

You have boxes of cables with which you don't know what to do
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If your friend or family member ( mostly much juniors in age ) casually ask you to help them with a tip to improve their 2ch audio system set up ( with a very modest budget in mind ) and you keep explaining to him/her all about the sound quality and the equipments matching , till the person who asked gets emmensely bored and almost regrets asking you.
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If your friend or family member ( mostly much juniors in age ) casually ask you to help them with a tip to improve their 2ch audio system set up ( with a very modest budget in mind ) and you keep explaining to him/her all about the sound quality and the equipments matching , till the person who asked gets emmensely bored and almost regrets asking you.

No, that makes you an ahole.
If your wife has no trunk for groceries, every room in the house has a stereo (including bathroom's), and I have a dedicated room just for audio! Not to mention I get some of my best sleep with bands like Tool (heavy metal) playing at 120db in my room.

Even my cat climbs into the ports of my sub boxes and takes a nap..... with music at volume. My son is 10 yrs old and constantly changes the setup I gave him for his room. My 5 yr old daughter, huh, I don't even want to get into that.

Or maybe it's because I have eight 12" subs, four 8" subs, and six 6" subs on bass alone. Add to that a total of eleven 6"mid-bass/mid range drivers and eleven tweeters. Four amps (three for bass alone), a custom built room with walls that are held in compression (anti-vibration), bracing on the ceiling, a concrete floor, dedicated power supply, ample diffusion, and I don't know what else to mention. Oh! Neighbors that don't complain no matter the hour!
you say out loud stroking your tube amp, "Isn't SHE beautiful! SHE never complains."...in front of your girlfriend.
given all of the myriad options available to you on the Internet, you are on an 'audio chat group' at past midnight. And think some of the pictures of gear are really, really fun to look at.