My price for proclaiming an audiophile is $10 on sale today only. I accept PayPal. Yes, you can be considered an audiophile for only $10 bucks! Cheap! You can’t even buy an audiophile fuse for only $10, eh? Maybe used…..
At what price is one considered an Audiophile.
Audiophilia, what is is it?
Is it the love of music or the equipment that presents the music.
Or is it both?
What is the cost of admission?
How much does one have to spend on equipment to be considered an Audiophile, if it is truly the later than the music.
What has membership to this perceived exclusive club cost you?
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The Cambridge dictionary defines an Audiophile: a person who is very interested in and enthusiastic about equipment for playing recorded sound, and its quality I kinda like that definition. Perhaps most music lovers are audiophiles at heart; I believe some audiophiles are in it just for subtle bragging rights much as some people have to see a movie first, have the flashiest car (or girlfriend, etc.), but IMO they’re missing the point. As Herman Hesse pointed out in Steppenwolf, if you learn the skills, even a crappy portable radio can sound like a symphony in your head. |
I am flabbergasted by the association of being audiophile, as a possible positive quality, is reduced to the highest gear price tag by most it seems... Acoustics rule the gear not the reverse... Being audiophile is not purchasing gear, it is LEARNING how to embed it acoustically because music experience matter , it matter over the specific attributed "sound" of an unplugged amplifier by virtue of his branded name and design and price ... |
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