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Difference being you can get a degree in engineering, but being an audiophile?....ones a science the other subjective.
I'm not sure those classifications are hard and fast... at least as far as considering audiophile to equate purely to subjectivity.
From Wikipedia article "audiophile":
An audiophile is a person enthusiastic about high-fidelity sound reproduction.[1]
High-fidelity reproduction can in fact be quantified, dedpite what anyone says. What is subjective is people's perceptions. It could be real audible differences or expectation bias or level mismatch or salesmans' psychological manipulation that leads to various perceived differences.
Many nonscientific audiophiles don't seem to understand that the very equipment they claim is beyond scientific measurement or explaination are in fact designed and constructed by engineers who use scientific principles and quantitative measirements to design, build, test, and calibrate tge equipment.
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