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Audiophile is a misnomer because what they love is the equipment, not the music. Technophile would be more apt. (and it could apply to the identical condition in 10,000 different hobbies).
Im a realistic audio enjoyer.. im not dropping 10000 dollars on a speaker set because I know my room isn't tuned. However ill set up my room best i can and buy nice used equipment to make it sound great.
I enjoy digital and analog sources. The mastering is what truly matters. I can tell you some of the best sound ive heard is off my reel to reel, because the mastering back then wasn't catering to shitty phone speakers.
Then again, the cd of Grace sounds amazing, again because of mastering.
I can say for absolute certainty that the vinyl 2 disc pressing of no more tears sounds VASTLY better than the cd, again because the cd is mastered like poop to appeal to the masses.
So one can enjoy audio and still be level headed about it. I dont give a shit what my cables are made of or if my amp has no lid on it.
There was a story recently about music companies being sued because it turns out their audiophile editions of vinyl records were typically pressed from digital sources (to save money, even though audiophile pressings were being sold for many times the price of regular ones), rather than through a fully analog chain.
Yeah, and the entire debate is moot since the cutting needle uses a digital offset when its cutting anyways even if it is from the master tape.
Its not analog or digital. Its the care and thought that was put into it. It just so happens that usually more care and thought is put into it when its analog.
I also prefer physical media of any type. Of course records are peak, theyre large enough to store great artwork and can sound very very good. They have a benefit of physically not being able to be brickwalled be some mixing engineer that's being screamed at by the marketing team to clip the mix bus so its loud as fuck and has no dynamics.