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 turned off the turntable, put in a CD, and helped with dinner.

An audiophile is one who knows you use a turntable to play captivating sit down and listen to it music, and CD for pass the time background music.

An audiophile is one who obsesses over every tiny little sonic and technical detail for untold hours, weeks, years, in order to hear for a minute every once in a while music that sweeps him away.
An audiophile is one who will sit in the dark listening to the same track over and over again neurotically second-guessing real vs imagined differences, then claim to be doing all this out of a love of music.
Audiophiles use their equipment as an excuse to buy still more equipment to graph the sound their equipment makes. Then still more equipment to change the graphs their equipment made. Audiophiles love a pretty graph. 

Not as pithy as Parsons. But you know its true.