At what price is one considered an Audiophile.

Cost totally irrelevant...

while Audiophile seems to technically have a formal dictionary definition, we clearly are all defining it differently, so this thread going in many directions...but generally fun...

I pretty much start every day listening to classical music on ipod and Bose ipod dock/speaker...

For myself, and most music loving friends...we have all heard expensive systems we did not like, and inexpensive systems we liked very much...certainly synergy and room acoustics are long recognized factors...but unfortunately, all the best systems we have heard have been expensive...though I thoroughly enjoy my much less expensive secondary systems, and could be very happy if that's all I had...exploring better equipment or room acoustic should never get in the way of enjoying what you have...

gotta have a solid core door