Let's start a coversation kinda tongue in cheek about this question. Also lets comment on the other way around . Your not a serious audiophile if you don't have ????? I will post my thoughts after several others have posted. Mike
You are an "audiophile" if you have over $100,000 worth of equipment and less than 50 pieces of music to play on the system. And all 50 pieces of music are "audiophile" recordings.
You are a "music lover" if you have a Fisher 500 receiver, an old turntable, a mid-priced Grado cartridge and 5000 LP's on the shelves.
You are an "audiophile" if the only female vocals you own are by Patricia Barbara, Dinah Krall and Nora Jones.
You are a "music lover" if among those 5000 LP's on the shelves one can find female vocals by Sarah Vaughn, Nancy Wilson, Chris Connor, Doris Day and Jo Stafford.
You are an "audiophile" if most of your music collection is drenched in artificial digital reverb.
You are a "music lover" if you are familiar with the magic that is contained way down there in the grooves of a great mono record.
Your not a serious audiophile if you don't have a magazine rack of Stereophile and The Absolute Sound mags in your bathroom. Mine are in the cabinet under the sink.
Unless you lied to your wife about exactly how much that cable cost
Unless you finished work early to get back home to either hide the box or put the component in your system and put the box in the loft because you know if you keep the box you will get more for it when you come to sell it all before the wife gets home.
I agree absolutely with the above comment When advertising second hand gear you describe it from child, smoke and pet free house
You’re not a serious audiophile if you aren’t curious how much better things would sound using Synergistic fuses; have even less curiosity about the differences between Red vs Black fuse versions; and have absolutely no interest whatsoever finding out which fuse direction would sound best in your system.
You’re not a serious audiophile if you find Spotify good enough and the sound quality "advantage" of Tidal inadequate reason to spend 2x more per month.
(The larger principle at work in the above)...you are not a serious audiophile if you refuse to spend 10x more to chase an incremental "1%" in sonic improvement.
You're not a serious audiophile if you don't suspect of a subtle change in the bass extension every time you see birds landing upon the power lines outside your window.
Conversly you may be an audiophile if a woman you meet is either an audio engineer or studied electronics design and you are incredibly turned on by that.
You may Not be an audiophile unless you have purchased or considering a purchase of outrageously priced ethernet cables (you'd never tell your IT guy about) that aren't supposed to make a difference but you can hear them anyway.
Your not a true audiophile if you put your equipment before the music!!! It's not the specs or how much you spend.It"s about the connection.When you lose track of the equipment and become part of the performance you have crossed over.
You're not really serious unless while sitting in your dedicated listening room trying to enjoy the music, you can't, due to the fact that your mind is racing whilst considering that next big ticket item that you MUST have to tweak a miniscule amount more out of what you already have, and what you need to sell off(children, wife, dog,car) to pay for it.
Of course you really are serious if you relate to all the responses in this post and don't find them humours, just statements of fact!!!!!!!!!!!! :)
If you drive a POS car so you can divert $ to the stereo... If you have a transistor. tube, and another transitor preamp in case one fails.... If you have one table with two armwands just in case...and another table for ?? If you have a drawer of extra ICs and PCs..... If you have ever recommended something cuz the dog liked it... All true...
Definitely not serious if you have more than 20 'audiophile' songs on regular rotation. When you go to your buddy's house you insist on playing only the same songs then you pause the music and discuss equipment for 3 hours or until you finally notice he's nodded off. True story!!!
You're not a serious audiophile if you never took advantage of a sensitive moment to buy something - I told my wife that I was negotiating a new pair of speakers the day my first kid was born. There she was holding the baby with tears of pain and joy and I just told her "Honey, I found a real good bargain, the speakers I've been talking about for almost half price. I'm ordering them later today! ... Our baby is sooo cute!"
You are not if you haven't figure out the difference between PCL and DSD. you are not if your software Music doesn't have a second backup copy. if you are not playing from NAS. if you don't have separate component for each stage.. better if you have multiple components for each stage ;). if you don't spend time looking at new listing on audiogon..
You are not serious if you haven't bought your wife a nice car because you feel a little guilty about how much $$$ you have spent that she doesn't know about.
You are not serious if you can remember "how much that cost" when your wife asks.
You are not serious if you are unwilling to pay your staff $20 each time to intercept UPS before they get to the front door. (Staff was 100 % until $7000 Headtrip headphone amp showed last week.)
You are not serious if you do not recognize "Headtrip" as a quadruple entendre.
You are not serious if your car cost more than your headphone amp. (Mine didn't :)
After you spent a huge amount of money to upgrade your system, you hurried back from work, skipping dinner, turned on your system, put on your. favorite music, and then, lets see... whats new on audiogon today? :)
You're not serious unless you've been threatened with divorce/forced abstinence/the 'long hard cold stare'/a 'come to Jesus' meeting or variants of the previous... You'd have max'd out a credit card at least once. Points for multiple occurrences. Bankruptcies win the lifetime title... When 'the remodel' is for a new dedicated listening space ALONE, and not included in a larger plan... Your dreams play out like a visit to an audio convention... You wake up twiddling yourself/spouse/both in a non-sexual fashion, but you're excited Anyway...(...this one is Real Serious, and you really need help...) Your closets have no space for clothes.... You don't like driving in your vehicle because the 'sound is so bad'...after the equipment has been replaced for the nth time....
You're not a audiophile if have not sneaked new equipment into your house past your wife, if your wife does not understand the acronym WAF or if your wife's eyes do not glaze over when you try to talk about $120 fuses with her.
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