Are you an "Audiophile"?

[Puffin]

Dictionary Definition :

Meaning of audiophile in English
a person who is very interested in and enthusiastic about equipment for playing recorded sound, and its quality:

[AJSki2fly]

Dictionary Definition :

Meaning of audiophile in English
a person who is very interested in and enthusiastic about equipment for playing recorded sound, and its quality:

Funny I was just about to post that too, so I am an audiophile and presumably most of us here must be as well, unless any of us do not care how good or bad their music sounds on whatever medium or system they listen with.

[walpurgis]

You can be interested in music and good quality equipment and not be an audiophile. My dad was an example.

[Puffin]

Well I was going to edit Post #16......but now I am Confused of Surrey

[AJSki2fly]

You can be interested in music and good quality equipment and not be an audiophile. My dad was an example.

So Geoff did your Dad not fall into any of the descriptors in this wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audiophile?Or in other words words did he just like music and was not bothered how it sounded or was reproduced? Did he just like audio equipment that was well built/designed or was aesthetically pleasing and not really bothered about how it sounded?

[Flo]

Isnt audiophile just a posh way of saying hobbyist, a music lover perhaps but not necessarily.
Best mate is musician and music nut, plays huge scratched vinyl collection on a 50 year old pioneer pl12 thru quad 33 303 and awful celestion monitors, sounds cack, he doesn’t give a toss. Most musicians I’ve met are happy with very prosaic sounding kit.
I think there a very male element of ocd involved in the best systems, audio trainspotters! Stamp collectors?

[walpurgis]

He was a world class electronics engineer, but he said Hi-Fi was nonsense and stereo was a gimmick. At the time of his death in 1964, he had been using a good Garrard autochanger deck, home built valve amp and 12" Rola full range speaker in suitable box! Needless to say it was a mono system

[antonio]

"I am definitely not an Audiophile". So what are you Puffin, and what you doing on this forum if you are not an hifi enthusiast?
It is perfectly ok to be 'as cheap as chips' audiophile

[Puffin]

It is perfectly ok to be 'as cheap as chips' audiophile

Yes, that will do nicely.

[AJSki2fly]

He was a world class electronics engineer, but he said Hi-Fi was nonsense and stereo was a gimmick. At the time of his death in 1964, he had been using a good Garrard autochanger deck, home built valve amp and 12" Rola full range speaker in suitable box! Needless to say it was a mono system

Back in the day some of those Garrards sounded pretty good, I had one in a so called portable which made nice music. Nothing wrong with mono if produced well, and from what you say your Dad probably made a good amp and feed a decent speaker for a good SQ.