Lets see the Audio phile has probably lost some of their hearing just like most adults. Audiophiles will spend $3000 to $5000 for a power distribution panel that is a standard home service panel from Europe with the neutral and ground buss made from a big block of copper and gold plated. Even at retail you could purchase the panel and plate the bus with gold for less than $1000. They spend $300 for hdmi cables made by Monster for digital signals. They buy analogue records, made from digital masters because they sound purer yet completely avoid the same recording if offered at the same quality as the Digital master. Even if they have equipment that samples at the same level as those analogue records made from digital.
Don't even get me going on $5000 cd players. I stopped being and Audiophile after my 3rd or forth rock concert or maybe it was the construction. I know I can't hear 20 to 20khz any more and there are a few frequencies in the middle I don't hear too well any more.
BTW I love buying that real nice loom for auto wiring and covering my $20 HDMI cables and calling them Monster killers ;-)
