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/

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A $133,000 turntable hooked up to a power conditioner, just so they can play a vinyl. I mean, this is fucking crazy right?

  • Strange_Dogz@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    One of the most laughable products in the industry. The complex rationalizations that have developed to defend them are hilarious. If you don’t want to put your $X000 cables on the floor, that’s ‘audiophilia nervosa’.