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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" 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 "

The better your system gets the harder it is to find really good music to listen to since so much of it is produced for for general public tastes and level of equipment. For me after a certain level is achieved with your gear the problem then becomes finding quality recordings.

If an audiophile can be described as a person who wants a superior, to him, level of sound quality both sides of what Parsons says are integral parts of being one.

Bliss is a good recording played on good equipment and sadly I spend a lot of time on the hunt for good recordings.
Heh heh," "Your system sounds like crap"

See, I'm an audiophile! "
  Followed by I spent a gob of cash on gear which qualifies me as an equipment audiophile aristo and I also spent $200 to buy a hires album (that is not one in reality)  so you plebes better watch out.
  Or this one. You are unable to spend the money I do on things and for that reason alone you have no idea of what quality sound is.