A music lover uses audio equipment to listen to his recordings. An audiophile uses recordings to listen to his audio equipment!
Har har har!!! 
Too true.
I must be a music lover, because it takes effort to listen to the equipment. I keep falling back into listening to the music.
J.P.
An add. definition of an audiophile vs. music lover could be someone owning a 20.000$+ audio setup, but much less than 500-1000 albums with music, favorably listening to samplers of HiFi magazines or some of the 100 audiophile albums mentioned in any equipment review around the world.
One more: If you own any Diana Krall, but don’t really like her music, you are definitely an audiophile!
Bootzilla saidA music lover uses audio equipment to listen to his recordings. An audiophile uses recordings to listen to his audio equipment!
Oh brother…How so very true!!!
But at the same time I also listen to the music, I guess it happens when one reaches a spot where the sound is just about right and your system is at its bust…
amgradmd saidOne more: If you own any Diana Krall, but don’t really like her music, you are definitely an audiophile!
I have to laugh, I read it a little while ago and I just noticed that unexpectedly I have 10 of her albums on the music server.
But its still a great joke that those in the music hobby can relate too!
Thanks for sharing…
Wonder how this one fits into the Lover & Audiophile debate here.
If I actually changed homes (went from a flat to a house) only so that I could have a dedicated audio room, treat it etc what would that make me? 
That would make you a very logical audiophile, clearly!