0 a person who is very interested in and enthusiastic about equipment for playing recorded sound, and its quality: --
For an audiophile the quality of streamed music is sometimes inadequate.
Their speakers are considered to be extremely high-end, audiophile-grade speakers, but they come with a very high price tag, as well.
Audiophiles will refer to such a device as an integrated receiver, while a single chassis that implements only one of the three component functions is called a discrete component.
A key goal of audiophiles is to capture the experience of a live musical performance in a room with good acoustics, and reproduce it at home.
There is another use of the term by some audiophiles, who leave new audio equipment turned on for multiple days or weeks, to get the components to achieve optimal performance.
Initial sales were slow, because at the time electronics retailers provided low-cost lamp cords to consumers for free and audiophiles didn't believe audio cables made a difference in the sound.
Both the 1997 and 2002 remasters are heavily criticised by audiophiles who claim they were mastered too loud as part of the loudness war mastering trend.
The moving magnet type was by far the most common and more robust of the two, though audiophiles often claim that the moving coil system yields higher fidelity sound.
Such a high price limited ownership to a small number of hi-fi aficionados and audiophiles.
