What's your definition of an audiophile?


Our love of audio is really basic biology with the brains dopamine reward system. The more we get pleasure with something the more we seek it out for the brains dopamineric response. Better sounding music equal more reward. MUSIC is our high! I tried to be a little eccentric from a science perspective. Alan Parsons cynically said "Audiophiles don’t use their equipment to listen to music. Audiophiles use your music to listen to their equipment”. Let me hear your definition


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I think it's about *listening.*  An audiophile is a person who dedicates time to the act of listening to recorded music.

If you actively listen to your Bose Wave Radio, you're an audiophile.  If your Wilson Chronosonics play music only in the background of your life, then you're just a person who owns an expensive thing.