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Audiophile - hi-fi enthusiast: somebody who has an enthusiasm for sound reproduction, especially high-fidelity music recordings
Anyone, can be an audiophile. Personally I think that everyone on this site in the speaker forum is an audiophile. We want our music to sound its best. We have an enthusiasm for audio. Whether its DTS-MA, DDTHD, DSD, PCM, 16/44.1, 24/192, etc.
We all want our movies and or music to sound its best; "like being there". Well then we are all audiophiles.
Any well recorded musical album would thus be audiophile music. It doesn't matter if its Strauss, Metallica, Miles Davis, White Stripes, Mahler, Notorious BIG, 2-PAC, Smashing Pumpkins, Pink Floyd, Eva Cassidy, Led Zeppelin, or Two Door Cinema Club.
Stereophile had an article once before, and the writer was talking about how as a kid, he loved to listen to music, didn't matter if it was his uncle's high end system or a ghetto blaster or a walkman. He loved the music. So that drew the question, what matters most? The music or the gear? Whos the bigger audiophile? The one with the gear, or the one that loves the music more?
Theres good and bad recordings of all types of music. There's compressed music from jazz, classical, rock/pop, and hip-hop. Theres good well recorded music from them all too. Someone said in here that there's the old and new audiophile. I guess Im a new audiophile. Cause I love music, and it comes from all the bands/genre's I listed above. My dealer thinks Im funny cause I bring in Dvorak, Foo Fighters, Miles Davis, John Mayer, Metallica and Ella Fitzgerald to my auditions. He says I have the largest musical tastes of any of his clients.
Theres some comments here that are just not needed. We all love audio, we are thus - enthusiast for sound reproduction, thus audiophiles. We just have different tastes. Its just like the threads like should I buy X or Y speakers. Doesn't matter, buy what YOU like.