A person mostly a snobby ass person like who spends crazy amounts of money on Stereo equipment speakers or peripherals. These types of people talk down on your equipment and compare or theirs because more than likely theirs sounds better than yours!
Laurence: hey bro man those speakers are $100,000 expensive
Paul: That stuff isn’t for me it’s for snobby audiophile people who have nothing better to do with their money.
Paul: That stuff isn’t for me it’s for snobby audiophile people who have nothing better to do with their money.
by Pauleyh February 4, 2021
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Origin: possibly mid 1970's concert sound reinforcement.
Origin: possibly mid 1970's concert sound reinforcement.
by W. Mark Hellinger January 7, 2008
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Someone who is obsessive about audio quality. This includes audio formats, audio equipment, and ripping processes/programs (I.E. Exact Audio Copy). Audiophile's usually have "trained" ears and are able to distinguish the difference between high quality and bad quality music encoding/components through blind testing.
Person: "Hey will you load this CD on to my computer for me while I go grab something to eat?"
Audiophile: "Sure. Do you want it compressed or lossless?"
Person: "What?"
Audiophile: "What format do you want? ALAC, AIFF, VBR, CBR, AAC, OGG, WMA, WAV?"
Person: "Uhhh..."
Audiophile: "I'll go ahead and rip the CD to FLAC level 8, and you can convert it with dBpoweramp to whatever you want later."
Person: "....kay."
Audiophile: "Sure. Do you want it compressed or lossless?"
Person: "What?"
Audiophile: "What format do you want? ALAC, AIFF, VBR, CBR, AAC, OGG, WMA, WAV?"
Person: "Uhhh..."
Audiophile: "I'll go ahead and rip the CD to FLAC level 8, and you can convert it with dBpoweramp to whatever you want later."
Person: "....kay."
by IsThatDoodie? February 1, 2009
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Get the Audiophile mug.Audiophile is a word that is commonly used in some underground communities to mean a person who passionately enjoys music, generally to the extent in that it causes euphoria and/or arousal, whether spiritual or sexual. Many audiophiles generally favor music with deep bass.
"Natasha is an audiophile, it's always much easier to get intimate with her if she's been listening to music with deep bass."
"Ken always looks so euphoric when the bass sets in at the concert, he's a shameless audiophile."
"Ken always looks so euphoric when the bass sets in at the concert, he's a shameless audiophile."
by RainbowFoxy March 3, 2015
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