does it really have to own gears over 1 thousand ringgit to be considered as an audiophile? How do you define proper setup in the first place?

Audiophile is defined as sound/music loving. Mean anyone who love sound or appreciate it can be considered as audiophiler.

This TT is not meant for showing off. Its more like exchanging gears for experience purpose. Not everyone has the dough to get all the gears for testing then sell it off if it doesnt suits them. This is the TT what most of the ppl needs to do testing to find which signature suits them. Plus what we are bringing along is not something that can be found easily in any shops and not everyone is that loaded to pay for something to test if they like it.

Here we come, we gather, we share, we test, we listen, we experience, we enjoy, we love and we APPRECIATE AUDIO and what other members bring no matter it is cheap or expensive.

Last but not least, Expensive != good. Cheap != bad.