You know you're an audiophile if--


You just got a pair of speakers you can barely move yourself (inverse proportionality with age probably too)

The first house you bought cost less than your current stereo investment (ditto)

You have boxes of cables with which you don't know what to do
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I think the "audiophile" thing is because most of us are "project focused" (I would say a "man" thing, but I know there are women "audiophiles" out there). I spend more time reading/buying for the "project" while the music plays in the background, than "listening". I know the music / system is good when it distracts me from the "project".
besides your main 2 channel system, you have a 5.1 in the living room, and NAD/Athena system in your wife's office and wake up to a JBL clock radio. Then you buy a 2nd home and put a nice stereo in one bedroom, and some nice little Kef's under the TV.
"You buy an album and clean, then play, the sides in numerical order."

Actually, probably just buying an album alone these days qualifies you but, yes, the cleaning and playing parts are likely then as well.

Also, if you actually spend time reading a thread called "You know you're an audiphile if-"....
If your current sound system is larger than the first house you bought.

If you have a car audio system that you realize is not even going to fit in your car.