If you stereo costs more than your car, I think you are an audiophile. I live in a neighborhood with medium sized homes and my kids love it there. I can move and have a music room, but my kids would be miserable. Now I really love music, and do the best I can with my room that is definately not perfect, but my kids come first. So I may not be an audiophile either. I would just make due and enjoy the music and to hell with the audiophile label. PS -Looks like your system is great to me.
Can you be an audiophile if ...
Okay, I'm evaluating my system. Finally, I have my speakers elevated so that their realm of projection and soundstage meshes seamlessly in the family room. You see, I don't have a dedicated listening room. In fact, my system shares space in the family room with the furniture. My question is then, can one be satisfied as an audiophile if you have a piece of furniture that you sit on, placed between your speakers? I have just such an arrangement. It's not like that's where I sit to listen to the music when I'm really sitting down to listen to the music, but it's there nonetheless. And yet, it sounds pretty damned good, I think.