Your not a serious audiophile I'd you have??????

Unless you have at least three of everything in regular or semi regular rotation at any given time. I suppose having three systems certainly counts for the same.

And I thought of another as I typed on. Unless you are continuously contemplating room acoustic tweaks that can be easily passed off or easily even disguised when sharing a space. 

A members post in my other topic helped inspire the later. "plants make good  defusors", nice grab. I remember reading that somewhere else and forgot to try it before forgetting about it altogether.      

1. If you don't have tubes
2. If you don't adjust VTA per each record
3. If you use original component feet
4. If you don't have at least 20 releases of Abbey Road and Dark Side Of The Moon
5. If you don't clean record before each "critial" listening
6. If you don't hear difference between wire "directions"
7. If you don't have at least 5 sets of different tubes for your equipment to "roll"
8. If you don't have Diana Krall, Cassandra Wilson, Nora Jones or Patricia Barber
9. If you don't have any of TAS, StereoFile or similar magazines on your end-table top inside the listening room.

You're not a serious audiophile unless you have taken out a second mortgage on your house to fund an upgrade for your system.

If you haven't participated in a "cable matters / no it doesn't" debate

Funny. Let me try too.
You are not a serious audiophile if you don't keep your cartridge at a constantly monitored precise temperature.
You are not an audiophile at all if you can't hear the difference when you machine clean the same record with different fluids.
You are definitely an audiophile if you still prefer reel to reel deck to anything else.
You are a super audiophile if you always align the cartridge by ear.

You're not a serious audiophile if you don't run to check your tubes when your baby touches them while they're running hot! Afterwards maybe you check on your baby's fingers...

Sold all your expensive gear and bought powered speakers with built in DAC!

Your not a serious audiophile until you start a thread tittled your not a serious audiophille if you have?????

Your not s serious audiophile unless you have a Fozgometer!!!!!

Your not a serious audiophile if you don't want to blow the dust off your ten year old CD player in the closet that you replaced with a multi thousand one 2 years ago . You don't want to know if the older one was just as good because it just can't be so why should I compare. Waste of time wouldn't you say??

Your not an audiophile if you don't have an MC phono cartridge and your not a serious audiophile if you don't have at least 2 mounted tonearms!!!!

Serious audiophiles can get into forum rant 'n raves that can go on endlessly about an esoteric item that drives other 'less serious 'philes' into an immediate lust for said item, regardless of price or appropriateness for Their system....the 'Just Because It Exists and It Might Help Factor'.

Lemmings act like that....fun to watch from a safe distance...;)

Keep it rollin', y'all.  Funniest thing I've read here @ AG, and wayyy too close for the comfort of 'some'.

Oh, and y'all haven't even started in on 'speaker size' and comparative anatomy yet...the "taller the line source, the shorter the...." ;)

@sfar, That is so true. I always look at the pic’s from back>> to side/top >>to front. I am usually looking for balanced XLR connections or well spaced speaker terminals :>)    Happy to see that I am not too weird.

Love the posts from tom6897 and rlawry.  

Keep it coming :-)

You're a serious audiophile only if, when you see an interesting listing, the first picture you look at is of the back of the component.

Or that should have read "spouse" instead of wife.  Just thinking about my own situation.

Worries about coming home from a trip and your wife tells you she sold your equipment for what you said you paid for it.

You have a secret Paypal account that replaces your 401k as a slush fund for your audiophile addictions.

You have new equipment delivered to your work address or you pick up from shippers so that you can bring in under the cover of darkness, thereby, keeping harmony in the family. 

You are a serious audiophile if you drink the koolaid and believe that a fuse can be worth $125 and make a night and day difference to the system performance!

If you don't run a grammar and spell checker before posting on a forum (jk)

You're not a serious audiophile if you truly, really enjoy the music over the performance of your equipment.

I'll weigh in. You're not a serious audiophile if you aren't positive that that certain piece of extra gear won't extract just a little bit more performance from your system. Kinda like sailing!

Your not a audiophile if your wife or girlfriend tells you to take back the last item you just bought. And your a serious audiophile if you say you are not taking it back

....if you think your system is finally complete, and you will never have to buy another item.


Zmanastronomy, gotta give you my vote! 

You are not a serious audiophile if you have never been to a shrink 

You're not a serious audiophile unless you've kept every single piece of gear, from component, to cables, you've ever had.

Your not a serious audiophile unless you have a reel to reel deck and purchase expensive tape recordings out now.

You’re not a serious audiophile unless you can talk in-depth and with great detail about equipment you’ve never listened to. : )

Your not a serious audiophile if you don't upgrade your system/components every other week...

If you dont have a dedicated audio room !

desire to listen to new component or wire is BIGGER than desire for sex.

Too bad the Audiogon system won't allow corrections to headings be made, ay? :-). My answer is a "sweet spot" listening chair.

Ok I will start it off. Your not s serious audiophile if your car costs more than your stereo. Mike