audiophile

Same rep in the US. It is just the audiophile hipsters who can't wait to show how much they know by bashing Bose.

There's many people who do that, but that's not what the audiophile world really has become.

"An audiophile uses music to listen to stereos.

IPods and the default ear buds are low quality compared to most audiophile gear.

I'm a bit of an audiophile myself, so I wouldn't listen to Beats, but I do think "bad" is a value judgement.

It's about a bunch of hand waving and big checkbook spending to impress other audiophiles.

If you market those "good enough" speakers as audiophile grade and charge a proportionate amount for them, people will buy them.

This isn't a case of a nutty audiophile mixing and matching unknown preamps, amps, and speakers and managing to blow some cones by cranking it to 11.

What's the difference between an audiophile and a musicophile?

Any true audiophile will notice the warmer sound of proper laser-trimmed resistors

Well, he got himself banned drom audiophile forums from pointing out their inconsistencies and ridiculous claims.

Students would often challenge him based on audiophile beliefs, and he would always use sound engineering arguments to refute them.

>I was always under the impression that I had an audiophile worthy setup especially considering that Ive spent upwards of $300 on headphones like Beats by Dre or Skull Candy.

If, like me, you are an audiophile particle physicist, you'll know that small hadrons degrade the transmission of audio signals by decohering individual notes, particularly quarter tones that have been reflected off of acoustic surfaces.

> Psychoacoustics are still very much apart of the audiophile worldPsychoacoustics[1] is the study of how people interpret sound -- things like loudness, limits of perception, how localization works...I think what you're talking about would better be described as placeboacoustics.