What’s another word for the opposite of audiophile?
I have a friend at work who cares so little about audio fidelity, it’s comical. For a good while he was using (literally) 2 dollar earbuds from Walmart. Even though he could definitely afford something far better. I eventually dug up something better out of a drawer and gave him that. Anyway I did let him listen to my HD6XX w/ Chord Mojo, but that only had the slightest impact on his opinion.
I know a few people who don’t give a rats ass about music, but I wouldn’t call them anti’s. In general it’s people having a hard time comprehending how much headphones can actually cost and that you would be willing to spend that much on them. I was like that…then leapt in by spending $800 CAD on the Stax SR-207’s n 252s energizer. I never thought I would ever justify spending $3000 or more on headphones, however I have since heard the HE-1000 v2 and Stellia and now wish I had the money to buy them. the sound is spectacular.
I know of one group, their the customs department in my country .Damn ppl won’t give me a good cut on importing audio gear, they are charging me a heft amount 
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My father used to like audio a lot then aged and interest dulled, but he hated headphones as he feared my hearing would go bad and I’m known for going overboard with my interests… must be the boredom.
That’s rough. What kind of fees do you end up getting charged?
lol, i respect him. and i think he’s just ok with the quality headphones he had. it’s like everyone has a base threshold, and his is just really low were it dosen’t bother him if they sound meh
i would try something more impressive than a HD6XX. i can see why it didnt have much of a impact
Anti-audiophiles? I know some people and those people are my little brothers…Such a shame for me to be honest.
Literally “anti” audiophiles… are probably people who don’t know 200$ headphones can sound 10 times better than 2$ headphones. Otherwise there’s no reason to be “anti”… unless you’re anti-music or whatever.
Or you only listen to crap music anyway…
Otherwise… Alan Parsons? 
I think there are a lot of people that simply don’t question if music is supposed to be better than what they get off of youtube on their phone played through the included earbuds. I brought my Elex into work and someone commented “Wow those are some headphones! What did they cost you? $200?”. To them that was most likely a ridiculous amount
I love that Alan Parsons quote, and I do tend to agree with it somewhat. As much as non-musicians tend to place songs and artists into specific genres, you almost never hear musicians do that. To them a good song is a good song and good musicians are good musicians no matter what the play style
Also, too much detail is the same as not enough detail for me. I know it can be useful for monitoring/mastering, but damn I’d never spend my days as if I had “Superman Ears” for fun.
And I’d never have 30 pairs of headphones to listen to “flavors” of… someone’s voice/instrument. If I can’t listen to everything on my headphones, for me, they’re defective.
And people could definitely say I’m an “anti-audiophile” for that…
…But it’s okay because it just means I’ll be “set for life” with 2-3 pairs of “mid-fi” 200$CAD headphones.
Oh, by the way I just spent 600$CAD on ESP95X because curiosity (just kidding).
By Alans quote. There might not be many or none audiophiles here… 
So would the answer be “know any?” as in = yes, nearly every one?
Many use their equipment and the change cycle goes and goes and goes on.
Still would not like be right up audiophile. Maybe something in between… following the yellow brick road.
I say screw Alan Parsons. the new gear ive gotten has added new life to my music, and im loving it.
I mean, I really would hate to be the guy, or to know anyone, who can’t choose over his 50 pairs of headphones and/or 50 pairs of speakers to listen to one album. I believe that’s what the quote means. Not “screw people who like to listen to music as if they were in the studio with us”.
I think the idea is that audiophile standards have made those in that community more critical of poorly recorded music while most modern recorded music caters to the crap earbuds the majority of people tend to listen on.
60.31% ! For headphones and Amp’s
FML I just found this right now.
First thing that popped in my mind. 
Well someone is looking after the local business.
We kinda have the same situation but many are still happy to buy / buy abroad since the price is still cheaper than local stores with import fees and taxes.
We don’t even have local audio products since most of the stuff comes from china and the quality and service isn’t guaranteed. I wonder if things will get better if amazon arrives next year, nah probably not.