Im joking really, im an audiophile myself with a decent hi fi set up that cost a few thousand dollars.
However, there is a subset of audiophiles that completely perplexes me. It just seems to me that at some stage, its no longer audiophilia (love of sound) but rather, some kind of neuroses where you have to control and make whatever you hear ‘pure’ or whatever it is. I worked in a psych ward years ago, and some of the stuff schizoprenics would say (about things being impure and such) echo alot of what I hear obsessive audiophiles say sometimes.
For example, theres audiophiles that would buy stuff like this:
https://www.toys4vip.com/en/luxury-toy/turntable/
A $133,000 turntable hooked up to a power conditioner, just so they can play a vinyl. I mean, this is fucking crazy right?
At the point where you think that DACs that measure the same sound different. There will be people here that will argue this no matter the scientific consensus.
It’s the anti-science. Buy as much bullshit as you want, but don’t model an entire belief system from it. My favorite is when they don’t ‘listen to measurements’ but then point at a bit rate and exclaim ‘night and day’ improvements.
But manufacturer specs are not “measurements”. Checkmate Science-theists.
/s obv.