My dictionary defines the term, audiophile, as: "a hi-fi enthusiast". Wikipedia defines it as: “a person enthusiastic about high-fidelity sound reproduction.”
In that sense, I am an audiophile as my goal is reproduction of recorded music that is as highly faithful to the original as reasonably possible.
Presently my system consists of a Carvin preamplifier and a pair of mono-block power amplifiers I built myself from SWTP kits which, at the time, produced some of the lowest distortion figures available at any price but I never confirmed that mine met the claimed specifications. My speakers are a pair of B&W 802.
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