What I like about this article is that they just find a few weirdos in Japan who actually end up doing that, and you get a blanket statement like "Audiophiles in Japan" while the proper headline should be "A few crazy old rich people". Journalism at its best.
If you parse a sentence that begins “Audiophiles in Japan...” as making a claim about every Japanese audiophile or even most of them, you will find the world
a confusing place. These sentences are everywhere. “Men are pigs”, “tacos are awesome”, etc.
Only two exemplars must exist for any such sentence to be true. Once you understand that, you will understand a lot more of what’s being said around you.
That depends on what categorizes "Audiophiles". If out of a million self-proclaimed audiophiles, a few hundreds are genuine ones and if out of those, a few tens are behaving this way, I think it can be reasonable to say that the audiophiles are behaving like that ;)
You must be aware that the audiophile community lives in a completely different world, where recreating sound is of more importance to them than rather enjoying the music on its own. The amount of money and time these people put in satisfying their "passion" is unrealistic. So, no. The article is right in talking about the weirdest of the weirdos ;)
