How large (or small) is the audiophile market?

What is an audiophile?

It is a fool with money who buy gear pieces  one after the other or a fool with no money ready to have fun in a dedicated room whose hobby is acoustics (me)...

This is my complete post and sentence which was truncated ...

Honest people when they quote someone put them in context and dont truncate the sentence to do their own bidding and insinuation...

My complete sentence describe this hobby in general as relating to an alternative : we go blind in an upgrade expansive race or we think and try to understand acoustics...( we are all deep in this alternative me and all others audiophiles)

My sentence was there to describe a central problem of this hobby not mocking anyone...

Anybody in this hobby has played with the upgrades race... Even me...

Then read a post COMPLETELY  and read the intention of the poster correctly before insinuating something of your own making...

@mahgister wrote:

What is an audiophile?

It is a fool with money who buy gear pieces  one after the other

So why are you here? I do not see how your name-calling inflammatory statements have any benefit.

 So why are you here truncating my sentence to turn it into a sarcasm against all people instead of describing a central dilemma in audio... I dont see how your post is a constructive post and not an attack or insinuation against me ?

Of my university friends only a handful were/are into hifi.  One is a designer at Bose, the rest are engineers or engineering PhD profs or research scientists.  None are on the constant hunt for the next big set of gear.  They made fairly substantial purchases and stuck with them until they failed and then researched the next purchased and stuck with that.  None subscribe to forums or magazines.

i am perhaps an imbecile but you are bad faith...

I answered to someone who truncated my post to suggest  i came here to insult people... What are your part here between him and me ?

You gave a good advice though... Why not ignoring my posts yourself as you advise others instead of insulting me without end with NO ARGUMENTS for many months now ?

@cdc  Kindly ignore the imbecile lest it just gets noisier and noisier

«Indians dont need mirror but stupidity do» -- Groucho Marx

For the economist Cipolla who wrote a free book on this matter, a stupid person  is precisely someone who attack someone else with not benefit for him and even at his own expanse for no useful reason..

I think deep33 correspond to this description ...

Why attacking me with NO ARGUMENTS for almost a year now if you are not a stupid person ?

Is it because i know how to tune a resonator as i did for 2 years in my room  ?

You wrote to me it is impossible to do...Since then you rage reading my posts...

Incredible stupidity and free sarcasms for no reason save ignorance...

Please go with your own advice ignore my posts...