Audiophile

Introduction

(source: pinterest)

An audiophile, a term that comes from the Latin audio "I hear" and Greek philos "loving," is a person who seeks high-quality audio reproduction through using high-end audio electronics. Audiophiles are not necessarily music lovers, but a great many of them do enjoy listening to a variety of sounds and genres of music. They are surely sound lovers who seek the highest quality re-production of musical sound, as close to the original live performance of the music as possible. They will listen to music on CD, MP3, and record, depending on which sounds best for that particular bit of music, video or radio, and they are in search of sounds that are both crisp and clean through a variety of components that are specialized for their listening pleasure. The components include turntable preamplifiers, Digital-to-analog converters, high end speakers, subwoofers, and equalization devices, vacuum tube disc players, preamplifiers and amplifiers.

(source: pinterest)

They pump these sounds through a variety of high-end speakers, wires, systems, and turntables. Audiophiles are concerned with the entire spectrum of music production--from the actual recording of the music to the in-home systems they use to listen to their music. The audiophile is literally obsessed with the quality of sound they hear, and they cultivate their hobby at home, on the internet, specialty music shops, and other musical avenues.

(source: https://www.discoverahobby.com/audiophile)