The very successful record store owner I met when he sold records out of a cardboard box on a street corner, recently gave this response when I told him that I was an audiophile, "Oh, you're one of those guys with a megabuck system and ten records that you play over and over".
I was going to tell him that he could do better than the Technics TT he was using, but changed my mind. No, you're far from being a sound snob; I don't know what it is with record store owners.
Enjoy the music.