I lately wonder why I’m an Audiophile.

Given the posting history of the OP, I suspect that his latest conversion to “The music is the thing, the gear doesn’t matter “ school of thought will be short lived.

  The only new component that I’ve bought in the last few was the $100 Wiim Pro, because I am pretty happy with how my 3 systems sound.  I still consider myself an Audiophile.  It is possible to say “This is good, now let’s play some music “ and not have FOMO that there is 0.005% of improvement that I can make 

I use the term audiophile to identify myself to normal people because it’s the quickest way to tell people about one of my priorities.  It’s faster than saying “I am obsessed with equipment that reproduces the music that I love and spend what people would consider insane amounts of resources to accomplish this goal.”