r/audiophile

275K archived posts · Apr 2009 – Sep 2026

All about quality home stereo, gear, and reviews

r/audiophile

• audio·phile: a person with love for, affinity towards or obsession with high-quality playback of sound and music. r/audiophile is a subreddit for the pursuit of quality audio reproduction of all forms, budgets, and sizes of speakers. Our primary goal is insightful discussion of home audio equipment, sources, music, and concepts.

Created Sep 15, 2008

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275KArchived posts

• audio·phile: a person with love for, affinity towards or obsession with high-quality playback of sound and music.

r/audiophile is a subreddit for the pursuit of quality audio reproduction of all forms, budgets, and sizes of speakers. Our primary goal is insightful discussion of home audio equipment, sources, music, and concepts.

Rules

Be most excellent towards your fellow redditors: And by "be most excellent" we mean no personal attacks, mocking, trolling, baiting, flaming, hate speech, racism, sexism, gatekeeping, or other behavior that makes humanity look like scum.
Ask purchase and shopping questions in the Shopping and Setup Help Desk: Requests for product opinions, comparisons, and general purchase advice must be made in r/StereoAdvice or the dedicated Shopping and Setup Help Desk instead of a new post.
Ask troubleshooting and setup questions in the Shopping and Setup Help Desk Requests for troubleshooting and setup help must be made in the dedicated Shopping and Setup Help Desk instead of a new post.
Image posts: Image posts must be accompanied by a comment with impressions or details that add value to the post. The comment does not need to be exhaustive, but should strive to give enough information to start the discussion.
Disallowed content: affiliate links, links to affiliate farms, pirated content, NSFW/NSFL content, market research, surveys, sweepstakes, giveaways, spam or self promotion.
No selling or buying: Please use r/AVExchange
No off-topic or headphone content: Post portable audio related content in r/headphones. Moderators also reserve the right to remove other content that fits better in other subreddits.

Additionally, sitewide rules and reddiquette applies. We may further remove posts that are deemed off-topic, low-effort, or better suited to other subreddits.

Read the rules in full here.

Looking to learn?

See our resource page here

What we want to see

Content that facilitates discussion about audio quality
New hardware releases
Gear reviews
Reviews of audiophile music
Discussions on audio technology
Photos of your setup. Or someone else's if it gives audiophiles "The fizz"

Need a moderator?

If you made a post to r/audiophile that is in accordance with our rules as listed above, and it doesn't seem to appear on the front page, please message the moderators.

Related subreddits

r/headphones - Headphones and portable Audio
r/StereoAdvice - Home HiFi Shopping Advice
r/audiophilemusic - Music for audiophiles
r/audioengineering - Pro audio/engineering
r/diyaudio - Do-It-Yourself Audio - also r/diytubes and r/diysound
r/BudgetAudiophile - for restricted budget hifi
r/headphonemods - DIY Headphone mods
r/headphoneporn - Headphone pictures
r/audiorepair - Repair help for audio gear
r/AVexchange - Trade used AV gear
r/avporn - AV pictures
r/CarAV - Car Audio and Video
r/Cd_Collectors - Talking About CD's and music in general.
r/vintageaudio - Vintage audio gear
r/vinyl - Turntables & Records

Moderators may at their discretion remove content that fits better in one of the above subreddits.

Subreddit's theme is r/Minimaluminiumalism.

Need music? Try r/audiophilemusic

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