You audition an amplifier that your really love and it sounds better than all the others but you decide against it because it is not expensive enough. You end up buying the next best sounding one that costs a lot more.
You know you're an audiophile if--
You just got a pair of speakers you can barely move yourself (inverse proportionality with age probably too)
The first house you bought cost less than your current stereo investment (ditto)
You have boxes of cables with which you don't know what to do
The first house you bought cost less than your current stereo investment (ditto)
You have boxes of cables with which you don't know what to do