What is Audiophile?
1.
"A lover of sound"
However as most people are lovers of music etc, the term audiophile points to people who love high end audio equipment and can distinguish between good speakers and bad ones, which cables to use, and can tell what bitrate an mp3 file is at... etc etc etc.
Audiophiles usually argue to the death as to which setup is best
'those monitors sound muddy as all hell'
"what? how can you tell good sir? I hear nothing wrong!"
'cuz i'm an audiophile you filthy monkey!'
2.
One who listens to the stereo rather than the music.
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3.
One who enjoys sex acts involving the ear.
After they stopped kissing, Jenny felt something touch her ear. She sighed. Why did she always end up with the audiophiles?
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4.
Someone who is obsessive about audio quality. This includes audio formats, audio equipment, and ripping processes/programs (I.E. Exact Audio Copy). Audiophile's usually have "trained" ears and are able to distinguish the difference between high quality and bad quality music encoding/components through blind testing.
Person: "Hey will you load this CD on to my computer for me while I go grab something to eat?"
Audiophile: "Sure. Do you want it compressed or lossless?"
Person: "What?"
Audiophile: "What format do you want? ALAC, AIFF, VBR, CBR, AAC, OGG, WMA, WAV?"
Person: "Uhhh..."
Audiophile: "I'll go ahead and rip the CD to FLAC level 8, and you can convert it with dBpoweramp to whatever you want later."
Person: "....kay."
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5.
When your priorities to enjoying music goes beyond the norm occasionaly.
Like selling a car to buy a turntable.
6.
Audiophiles may be music lovers, but true audiophiles believe that the smallest, most imperceptible subtleties of sound are worth hundreds or thousands of dollars worth of equipment to pretend to perceive, when they could just as easily blow 15 bucks for a CD player that they'll hear the same way.
Audiophile: I am an obsessive whore-beast consumer. I just dropped $15k on a new transport and converter. I can now hear warmer tones as if the orchestra's playing better. Gee, I'm glad I invested in $7k cables.
Normal Guy: Dipshit.
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7.
one who thinks the next purchase will make a big difference
that audiophile bought another $$$$ cable from me
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