killdozzer
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Further common place of audiophile world is that it is always audiophiles who will fight the label. Hifists don't really mind it and more often you'll see that hifists chose the label for themselves as it helps simplify and clarify things right from the start.
Audiophiles OTOH will fight it fiercely from time to time being fully aware there’s always a note of gullible pink prose attached.
For the most part this is just a waste of time. It’s what you do in the end, not whether you like how someone labels you. Fine, you’re not an audiophile, but you cables are all an inch thick. Your stands cost more than some capable and accurate speakers. Every component you own has an equivalent in a much cheaper component that performs equally well. You went for the 5k more expensive pair of speakers and still didn’t do EQ.
Whether you like the word or not... doesn’t make much difference.
However, not to lay it heavily on the audiophiles, if I ever come across a single one of them who’ll say “none of the above have I done expecting results in SQ, but because I care about beauty and visual appearance of something I gotta live with is very important to me” I’d shake his hand. I haven’t heard that sentence ever.
Audiophiles OTOH will fight it fiercely from time to time being fully aware there’s always a note of gullible pink prose attached.
For the most part this is just a waste of time. It’s what you do in the end, not whether you like how someone labels you. Fine, you’re not an audiophile, but you cables are all an inch thick. Your stands cost more than some capable and accurate speakers. Every component you own has an equivalent in a much cheaper component that performs equally well. You went for the 5k more expensive pair of speakers and still didn’t do EQ.
Whether you like the word or not... doesn’t make much difference.
However, not to lay it heavily on the audiophiles, if I ever come across a single one of them who’ll say “none of the above have I done expecting results in SQ, but because I care about beauty and visual appearance of something I gotta live with is very important to me” I’d shake his hand. I haven’t heard that sentence ever.