I agree with the above, and I also think that a large aspect of audiophilia has to do with status. Thus any enhanced product that SlimDevices produces and labels "audiophile" is not going to be fancy enough or expensive enough for some people. A lot of audiophiles are just driven to spend more dosh than the next guy. You see the same thing across many "gadget" hobbies - the guy with the lightest expensive carbon bike, the guy with the hand-built custom tube guitar amp and the '63 strat, the guy with the most expensive sports car or motorcycle, the guy who buys the newest-latest golf driver every three months, etc. Those folks aren't really in their hobby to enjoy the activity, but rather to have the coolest gear. There are tons of status-driven gear-heads out there, and they're not going to be satisfied with something other people can also easily have. At some point, "audiophile" becomes more about financial status than sound quality.
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