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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If you start telling white lies to your loved ones to snick that new gear in to your house without getting caught.

For us, this obsession is quest for happiness it-self...
On push of few buttons, we are transported to the never never land of nirvana...Better than drugs - one agoner said ! (and safer and cheaper)

- you get art prints made out of audiophile approved acoustic panels

- you own a tube tester, freq analyzing mic, or tone generator
Mapman wrote,

""after changing anything possible - start playing with fuse direction ..."

How true. Anything possible.

Sadly, I lie to experiment with anything possible for sure, but I do not have time to waste, so I choose my experiments carefully."

Hey, Mapman, I'm pretty sure this is not supposed to be a serious thread. You can go back to your BarcoLounger now.
When you have a reoccurring nightmare about a component you foolishly sold. Over....and....over....and...over.
You know you're an audiophile if-your biggest fear is when you die the wife will sell your hi-fi at the price you told her it cost. :D