Fake Audiophiles

It's something similar to
fake boobs
fake lips
fake hips...
and now it's even more advance when you can even have a fake ussy.

"True Audiophile - Sound is magic"

if true, then it would seem all Audiophiles are delusional. Maybe to some degree, but I think I can identify a knowledgeable audiophile for every one that relies mainly on "magic".

I will admit that I was more that way myself when young and first getting started. Luckily, I believe I learned some things over the years.

Everyone has to start somewhere, even an audiophile. Live and learn. At first, it may well seem like magic.

Are you talking to me?

I don't see any one else here.

Real audiophiles have real issues.
Fake audiophiles have fake issues.

Cheers,
John

Jmcgrogan2,
LOL ;-)

I disagree with Beeswax. IMO.....

True Audiophile:

DEF'N: Quest for classy and ever-improving sound is the
ethereal satisfaction we call "magic", and the
magic quest in this hobby is a lifelong journey that
includes upgrading gear as you go, AND embracing new
technologies as a part of that magical road to OZ. As the
gear evolves, you still enjoy the music at every price point
strata and also at every evolving technology milepost in
that journey.

Fake Audiophile (two streams that can also intersect each
other )

DEF'N #1: That ethereal magical sound quest / Road to OZ
is slurred and degraded to a fake by a cheap-as-U-can-get-it
race-to-the-bottom price-wise and/or quality-wise. It's the
hallmark of selected types that measure success by throwing
around nickels like they are manhole covers and ignoring the
inalienable basic tenet in this hobby (as in life) that you
get what you pay for.

DEF'N #2: Old is somehow always better and
"Vintage" audio rules!.... full stop,

"Vintage" in audio is not any automatic segway of
implied performance superiority.
Nor is it stretched to the same interpretation of
"vintage" as in fine wines ...

In audio it has a plain meaning of "old" ... with
all the warts attached to that term... and usually is
ameliorated with a very subjective kind nostalgia wrapper .