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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Your house gets robbed but they didn't take the stereo because that old tube junk isn't worth anything.
You know you're an audiophile if you've discarded a record or CD because it didn't have enough inner detail or wasn't awash in enough artificial reverb to suit your audiophile tastes.

A music lover on the other hand ...
Right on, Oregonpapa !

I suffer through the violins as chalk on blackboard imitation
on Columbia vinyl because of the wonderful performances of Walter and Szell.