You're not a true audiophile unless...

With all the posts received, we can safely say that

- insert your own phrase preceding “phile” …( eg audio, music, lifestyle, digital, tube, basshead , blah, blah …) , and,

- now we have a intuit variant of a cult following in a common hobby that may wreak havoc on your pocketbook in its worst addiction form…

An oenophile to own the right  to be one must develop his taste  sense and learn about geology, geography, agriculture, chemistry, physiology etc ...

An audiophile must study the basic of the related  audio fields which most important one is acoustics ...

It could  certainly not necessarily  be someone owning 40 headphones and 35 speakers... Being a collector or a consumer does not define audiophile status no more than owning a  costly wine cave if we could purchase it ...

An audiophile is mostly someone who study , think and experiment about the best way to use any system at any price because acoustics and psycho-acoustics dont change their principles with the gear price scale ...

"If you want to fight a cult, you've got to form a cult."

Whatever that means...