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What's your definition of an audiophile?

Our love of audio is really basic biology with the brains dopamine reward system. The more we get pleasure with something the more we seek it out for the brains dopamineric response. Better sounding music equal more reward. MUSIC is our high! I tried to be a little eccentric from a science perspective. Alan Parsons cynically said "Audiophiles don’t use their equipment to listen to music. Audiophiles use your music to listen to their equipment”. Let me hear your definition


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wlutke
717 posts
 
Music lovers chase a moving target as their system and experience evolve.  Somewhere down the road they become audiophile.  
ejr1953
902 posts
 
One of my friends characterizes an audiophile as someone who has "more dollars than sense".

Hopefully, it is someone who enjoys music, but in my experience, many of them seem to enjoy the equipment more than the music.
dprincipato
53 posts
 
Many good responses here.  I don’t know, and quite possibly, don’t care what an audiophile is. But, as I listen, I often think of a Duke Ellington quote; “If it sounds good, it is good.”

Enjoy....

Dave
perkri
892 posts
 
I tend to like the dictionary definition 

au·​dio·​phile | \ ˈȯ-dē-ō-ˌfī(-ə)l  \Definition of audiophile

: a person who is enthusiastic about high-fidelity sound reproduction
mahlman
433 posts
 
Heh heh," "Your system sounds like crap"

See, I'm an audiophile! "
  Followed by I spent a gob of cash on gear which qualifies me as an equipment audiophile aristo and I also spent $200 to buy a hires album (that is not one in reality)  so you plebes better watch out.
  Or this one. You are unable to spend the money I do on things and for that reason alone you have no idea of what quality sound is.
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