Jaybo It is time for us to accept the stinkin lable. I have avoided using the term Audiophile for years because it seemed so pretentious and I thought a more humble name would sound better.
I recently got a little mixed up trying to assign a name to myself and those of a similar mindset involved in the "hobby". I finally ended up thinking that audio or sounds and lover, or very much in like with, advocate proponent of, phile. Are probably apt.
Despite negative associations that name carries with it, the truth is that this is not a simply a group of music lovers. There are music lovers all over the place, if you will. What makes us different is that we care about sonic quality of the music we listen to in any genre.
Therefore to answer your question "audiolphile" should point you towards high quality recordings or data files used for reproducing music, any artist on any label etc..
The examples given of audiophile recordings are good, such as those by FIM. Being as open to listening to good music, if necessary, that is not well recorded as anyone else. I still like to use my familiar supposedly well engineered and made Burmester CD to audition equipment and to check my own stuff whenever I need to.
There are a good many others I don't own but have piqued my curiosity like McIntosh's SACDs, Hovland,Ayre and others.
