Well, your definition of "audiophile" as being a TAS-reader who spends enourmous amounts on interconnects is your own. Your definition of "audiophile" being someone who likes "high end" as definied by TAS is plain wrong. "high end" is just a term to define a segment of the market.
I just had a look in my current HiFi News here in the UK, which has a segment on "The roots of hi-fi", and their first issue came out in Jun 1956, and their November 1957 issue reviewed a Quad SEL -an audiophile speaker. I don't agree with the term audiophile being redefined as "gullible TAS reader with too much money and no knowledge", which is sort of what you are implying. Anyone here who actually cares about sound quality is an audiophile. And, yes, good sound reproduction as a hobby is nowdays competing with computer surfing, gaming, home cinema, etc. That doesn't affect what it means to be an audiophile. -- P Floding ------------------------------------------------------------------------ P Floding's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2932 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21173 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
