The first freedom demands missing sound from the everyday world. Leaf blowers or backing-up alarms or most mediated talk, you can hardly blame an ear-budded populace its preference for tunes and tuning out and cancelling all that noise.
A little arrogant or self-inbubble-ing or sad or whatever, the world ought surely to sound better than it does.
The audiophile presumes freedom from the external, any noise heard as doubt, the inner-ring of irritation common to trying to get something right.
If this can be heard correctly (and surely, thinks the A-Phile, it can be heard correctly)