This falls into the category of 'ETC'.
My daughter has been bugging me with a lot of questions re the religious wars of those times, Crusades, 30 Years War, etc. While I agree definitely audio is not religion on the other thread, I can't help but be reminded of a few things wherein they are a bit similar, all in the spirit of jest.
1. Tube purists - those who use tube only and nothing else, aka Monogamists.
2. Hell - where tube purists think the Solid State users will go to.
(I actually read this in another forum)
3. Analog purist - those who think CDs and servers are sinful objects.
4. Purgatory - where analog purists think the digital people will go. They are kinder than the tube purists.
5. Polygamist - user of CD, streaming, lossless, air-whatever, wifi, itunes, ipods, servers, etc.
6. Bigamist - user of tube and SS gears. They like to call themselves hybrid lovers.
7. Divorce - your real wife leaves you after learning you married your audio set-up, the de facto wife.
8. Limbo - where Solid State purists think the analog purists are in already.
9. Nirvana - where tube purists think they themselves are in already.
10. Blasphemy – An ARC fan hearing Nelson Pass being called a ‘god’.
11. Idolatry - worshiping an 845 tube and thinking it is Ra.
12. Heretic - my good friend kabubi had mentioned this in the main thread, using equalizers and such similar contraptions.
13. Fanatic – a person who buys a set of NOS tubes years before his tube pre-amp.
14. Terrorist – a person who requests to play The Gates of Dafos in your pair of Quad ESL speakers at full volume.
15. Temptation - home auditioning $100k speakers when you are down to your last $100k.
16. Suicide - home auditioning $100k speakers when you have only $20k.
17. Enlightenment - selling all your audio gears and software and deciding to watch all live concerts instead.
18. Blessing – when you long lost uncle learns you’re a vinyl lover and gives you 50 boxes of records in his garage, plus a Marantz Model 7 and Model 9.
19. Pilgrimage – trip to White Bear Lake, Minnesota, USA
(There are many sites, can be Glasgow, UK or parts unknown, Russia).
20. Born-again - seeing a dead tube light up again. (Can also be regarded as a Miracle)
21. Eternal Damnation – when your favorite tube dies and you have no spares in your closet.
22. Holy grail - near mint records costing $1000 and up. (Original Hi Fi ala Espanola and Royal Ballet)
23. Crusaders - a bunch of tube lovers entering the room of a diehard SS user.
24. Martyr - a diehard SS user in the midst of a dozen tube lovers inside a beer pub.
25. Reformation - when a SS user converts to tube gears.
26. Reincarnation –when you bring in your bookself speakers to your dealer’s room and come out with floorstanding speakers. Commonly known as 'trade-in' in the audio parlance.
27. Confession – when you whisper to your guest that the subterranean bass was coming from a floor hatch that you dug to hide your subwoofers while he can only see a pair of Spica TC-50s.
28. Ritual – when you try to play your record, you first take off the cloth covering the turntable, open the dust cover, clean the dust on your platter, pluck out a record from you bin, remove the plastic jacket, remove the record from the inner sleeves, clean the record on your RCM, put the record on your platter, put on the record clamp and periphery ring, turn on the air pump of your tonearm, cue in the stylus, lower the stylus, un-mute your phono stage, increase the volume, and RUN to your listening chair so you won’t miss the first few seconds of the overture! And damn! you forgot to turn off the lights for the warm ambiance, so you START ALL OVER AGAIN but only at the part where you cue in your stylus!
And then to play the next record, you have to UNDO all that stuff you just did.
29. Meditation - the act of A/B'ing Pink label and QRP pressing of Cat Steven's Tea for the Tillerman.
30. Moses and the 2 Tablets - did not really contain the 10 commandments but a couple of tweeters and small woofers.