You know you're an audiophile if--

You look around the house for things to pawn to buy audio gear. I'm thinking the lamp is worth at least fifty bucks...

If you own a separate bank account linked to PayPal to manage your buy/sell transactions.

Well, if the account was not initially known to your spouse but later got revealed, then ...

You've "upgraded" and "upgraded", selling the "old" stuff on Agon or Ebay....only to wind up buying a piece you used to have because it is SS but sounds like Tubes. Because you're afraid of the "Tube" hassles.

You go to your doctor and ask if he can check your frequency response.

your frame of reference for time, i.e. history, is forever linked to the components you used to own, such as: I recall that September of '98 when I got that killer buy on a $3k new Sony XA7ES CDP for $1000 as Sony was closing out production on it...or that July of '99 when the first of many Plinius SA100's arrived to adorn my listening room, and how days later that same amp that had arrived just days earlier with thoughts of great anticipation now had me on a mission to find a fan that was inaudible enough not to have an audible influence from my listening position...and how just months later that same Class A amplifier kept me warm and cozy throughout the winter...I could go on and on, but somehow I'm left with the feeling I'm preaching to the choir ;)