You know you're an audiophile if--

Your house gets robbed but they didn't take the stereo because that old tube junk isn't worth anything.

You know you're an audiophile if you've discarded a record or CD because it didn't have enough inner detail or wasn't awash in enough artificial reverb to suit your audiophile tastes.

A music lover on the other hand ...

Right on, Oregonpapa !

I suffer through the violins as chalk on blackboard imitation
on Columbia vinyl because of the wonderful performances of Walter and Szell.

Years back I stopped at a barn sale and found a Denon DP-57L turntable that was just sitting on the floor, a bit away from the usual fair. Behind it were around 400 lp's. I asked about it, and the gal said it previously belonged to a dj who was staying with them for a bit, but left it when he split. Said I could have the turntable for $15, but I'd have to take all of the lp's, too. I started to go through them and found roughly three quarters of them were very moldy, and the ones that weren't were 12" hip-hop/ rap singles. I don't care for that style of music, but just couldn't let them go to the garbage heap. I think I gave her 20 bucks for the 'table and 12" singles.
I believe that makes me an audionut.
Recently brought the singles to a used record store to make room for my other lp's that were taking up floor space.

Placement of the stereo was the first thing I envisioned in every new home.
Looking at what's for sale on audiogon almost on a daily basis even though you aren't looking to buy.
Tweaking my system is a nice diversion from thinking about work.
Still feeling guilty about selling my large Advents 35 YEARS AGO.

So true JC4659! I do all those things! Except the Advents. For me it was Vandersteens. Excellent find Buck $2.80! Amazing what a record cleaning machine will do for moldy records, and anything you don't like can be sold or traded for the stuff you like!

Lately I find myself pondering the difference in sound by adjusting toe in by one inch, anal, I believe the word is...

You're looking at homes with a Realtor. Not only do you envision the placement of your audio gear in every home you visit, but you walk around what would be the listening area of each home clapping your hands to test the acoustics.

...and when you look for apartment, all you care about is placing your audio. everything else is optional including bedroom.

You become a dealer of high end audio so that you can have half a million in equipment in the living room, thereby making your wife clueless about upgrades you "have" to try. Life was good. My wife would ask how much I'd sold that month, then how much did you clear out of that, then how much can I have for the joint account, at which time I'd say however much you have to have, the rest needs to go into inventory.

My wife would come up to the house for lunch (she had her veterinary clinic on the property) and tell me it really pissed her off to come up to the house and find me kicking back listening to music. I told her to block off two hours as soon as she could and she could see what I was doing.

Doing A/B comparisons I showed her how to make the changes I was looking for, and when she was having a hard time hearing differences I showed her how to focus on the instrument or sound stage that was being affected. She started getting it, but at an hour she said she hadn't realized how tedious what I was doing was, she asked if that was what I did for most of the day and I told her that is exactly what I was doing when I wasn't on the phone or doing a demo. Taking it that seriously day in and day out is harder than it would seem.

...who claims to be clueless about what your obsession with separation and sound stage and stuff that means nothing to her has picked up enough from you that she doesn't even realize she has become a critic of other people's systems. At friend's houses she would whisper to me about haw crappy their stereo system sounds, and add the little bit about how the highs were hard on her ears.

...actually I AM in the process of looking at a new domicile and I AM actually considering each home based upon where I'm going to put my audio gear. Why don't they make barns anymore???