Why are you an Audiophile?

Mike said:
I love attending our local audiophile club meetings. I doubt you will ever get any two people to agree on anything! But everyone is respectful and listens and learns.

I've found that audiophiles are generally more interested in synergy (I know many who don't believe in that word, but I do!) than they are with gear. They are more interested in good clean power, the right cabling, fine attention to the room, etc. Essentially, building a "foundation" for great sound.
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Obviously a different world in FL than the cesspool known as California. walk into an audiophile club in CA and the first question is how much money your system cost and if it's not enough you'll be put down in every direction. "Good clean power, the right cabling, fine attention to the room": There in lies the rub. I am not interested in pursuing any of those things. Synergy can not be forced or bought, it just happens or it don't. There is no such thing as "the right cabling". It's just shielded or unshielded and I hate cables, period. The room is the room and one can only do what one can to tune it. All that stuff about cables and tone arms and cookers and other snake oil is not of my world and I don't want it in my world. I view it as almost evil personally. Thus I am not an audiophile. I just listen to music~Eric
 
Big Jim 007 said:
Eric:

I hear you, however, the only way to change the perception is to accept that you are and go with it. There will always be the cache mentality to overcome. In the end, the music wins out every time!

In my case, I really like/love my system and am proud that I was able to cobble it together for as inexpensive as I have. At the end of the day, I only need to please myself.

Jim
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I don't accept the title of "audiophile" for myself. I can't live up to it. All I do is listen to music and could care less about the tech details and such. I hate cables, tonearms, etc. All I want to do is listen to music and all that stuff just interferes with that.
 
NorthStar said:
Eric, are you still happy that I introduced you to AudioShark? :)
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Yes. I was told early on that "I don't have to be an audiophile or have an expensive system to join". It's just that lately I've had other claimed audiophiles outside this forum, call me an audiophile only to be disappointed when they find out that I am not and proceed to tell me I need to spend more money I do not have on stuff like tonearms, carts, turntables and cables that will only make things worse, not better because I am not interested in that stuff in the slightest. I've already made the mistake of purchasing a super expensive cart I can't mount to anything because I don't have the skills or equipment to get it perfect so it doesn't destroy my records. I don't know how I got talked into it either. I'm usually a brick wall. I equate being called an audiophile with being called a doctor, I can't live up to either expectation because I am neither.
 
Big Jim 007 said:
Eric:

I hear you, however, the only way to change the perception is to accept that you are and go with it. There will always be the cache mentality to overcome. In the end, the music wins out every time!

In my case, I really like/love my system and am proud that I was able to cobble it together for as inexpensive as I have. At the end of the day, I only need to please myself.

Jim
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Here's an idea: I'm not really an audiophile, I just play one on TV.:snicker:
 
MusicDirector said:
Yes. I was told early on that "I don't have to be an audiophile or have an expensive system to join". It's just that lately I've had other claimed audiophiles outside this forum, call me an audiophile only to be disappointed when they find out that I am not and proceed to tell me I need to spend more money I do not have on stuff like tonearms, carts, turntables and cables that will only make things worse, not better because I am not interested in that stuff in the slightest. I've already made the mistake of purchasing a super expensive cart I can't mount to anything because I don't have the skills or equipment to get it perfect so it doesn't destroy my records. I don't know how I got talked into it either. I'm usually a brick wall. I equate being called an audiophile with being called a doctor, I can't live up to either expectation because I am neither.
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You are very special, unique Eric, and that's just the way you are you, and that we love you. :heart:

By the way, you are an "audiophile"! ...You love music with a deep passion, you have an hi-fi rig, and that's all there's to it!
And just don't argue with me! :D
 
I'm an Audiophile and so gullible . :facepalm:

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NorthStar said:
You are very special, unique Eric, and that's just the way you are you, and that we love you. :heart:

By the way, you are an "audiophile"! ...You love music with a deep passion, you have an hi-fi rig, and that's all there's to it!
And just don't argue with me! :D
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Well, I'll continue to refer to myself as NOT an audiophile and just a music lover or something normal or mainstream. My hi-fi rig is my vintage system and while certainly not high-end or "audiophile", it also doesn't need any special phono preamps or anything. It sounds the way it should. The gear at that time was built for what we try to achieve now at great cost and constant failure. If "audiophile" was a disease I might be more comfortable with it, it would almost make more sense. With my love of music, sometimes I wonder if it isn't a disease.:snicker: ~Eric
 
I never been one for titles either just a music lover it started when I was just a kid listening to my mother's Nat King Cole records. Then my cousin turned me on to so many different types of music as I got older. I played the trumpet for awhile but I am a natural born button pusher I was 6 or 7 years old and I pushed the escalator stop button in Macy's in NYC it was just a stepping stone as what to come. All I want to do in high school was be involved in music in some form so I became an Audio Engineer for a bunch of guy's that had a band. I am very blessed to make a living at what I love to do I look at my home system just a small extension of that.
 
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