A confession.

[Macca]

Talk about thread drift - how did we get from spending money earmarked for an engagement ring on hifi to giving up fags

You were free-associating and we just went with it.

[Pharos]

I do not really understand smoking. I remember my first fag and how it made me ill for about 7 hours, but that illusive supposed pleasure all the adults and ads conveyed, caused me to persist until I habituated sufficiently to not feel ill.

Having overcome all the nausea and distaste, becoming habituated, there is a sort of spaced out pleasure from the intoxication, and it can last with me for many hours.

After long breaks I usually have found that I again am nauseated by it and feel sick, get flesh crawl overheating and dizzy.

With my strong concern for health in every other respect I have just ruled it out, and accept reality with all of its often unfettered unpleasantness as the way to go for me. I nearly had a brandy in my cocoa this evening, but put the bottle away without having any. This decrease in consumption of Remy Martin has resulted in the accumulation of three bottles of it from previous Christmases.

[Mikeandvan]

From an aesthetic point of view, do precious metals really have any value, if you can fool some South American tribe, then why not one's future wife?

[Mikeandvan]

Audiophiles meanwhile are far easier than some ancient tribe to fool, you can just use bog standard metal or wood, just tell them it has magical acoustic qualities.

[Barry]

Audiophiles meanwhile are far easier than some ancient tribe to fool, you can just use bog standard metal or wood, just tell them it has magical acoustic qualities.

Not me!

[Pigmy Pony]

Not me!

Nor me - I like to think that mostly we are music lovers first and foremost, who want our music to be presented in as convincing and enjoyable way as our budgets/talents will allow. And are old enough and wise enough not to be readily taken in by snake oil claims.

Unless that is the definition of "audiophile".

[Barry]

Nor me - I like to think that mostly we are music lovers first and foremost, who want our music to be presented in as convincing and enjoyable way as our budgets/talents will allow. And are old enough and wise enough not to be readily taken in by snake oil claims.

Unless that is the definition of "audiophile".

+1

Not sure what the definition of "audiophile" is. I never use the term. No doubt it was first coined in America (I think it was Hartley who coined the term 'high fidelity'), and by someone who did not know that lexicographers frown on Latin-Greek hybrid words.

Wikipedia makes an attempt of a definition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audiophile.

[Lawrence001]

I remember reading a definition of an audiophile somewhere, it said someone who only listens to a few pieces of music over and over again while changing their system. I didn't think it was a proper definition but it struck me as a likely symptom

[Macca]

I think the term originates from magazine 'The Absolute Sound' back in the 1950s.

I think the intent was to create an elitist mindset amongst the readership, defining them as people who are more discerning than the typical enthusiast who is happy with his Sony.

I've never been keen on it as a label.

[Pigmy Pony]

I think the term originates from magazine 'The Absolute Sound' back in the 1950s.

I think the intent was to create an elitist mindset amongst the readership, defining them as people who are more discerning than the typical enthusiast who is happy with his Sony.

I've never been keen on it as a label.

Me neither, I wouldn't call myself one, and wouldn't call anyone else an audiophile, not even as an insult.