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r/audiophile

All about quality home stereo, gear, and reviews. • 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. Founded 2008 · 2.2M members

2.2M members. The best post we have captured here reached 47.7K upvotes, which works out to 22 per 1,000 members.

22peak upvotes per 1,000 members
2.2Mmembers
47.7Kbest post
1.4Kmost comments
991posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

30% 27% 20% 15%
Image 30% Gallery 27% Text 20% Question 15% Video 6% Link 1%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Discussion 410 Show & Tell 310 Humor 78 Music 39 Impressions 38 Science & Tech 26 DIY 24 Review 19 Measurements 9 Community Help 7

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Finally, a man of the people‼️

↑ 47.7K 💬 811 image 2024

You like high quality audio, but what's about high quality internet?

↑ 18.7K 💬 148 link 2017

Saw this and found it hilarious

↑ 11.4K 💬 92 image 2018

Dad passed away and handed down this equipment

↑ 11.3K 💬 999 gallery 2026

Best $9.00 audio upgrade

↑ 8.3K 💬 394 image 2025

My beautiful place in Chernihiv, Ukraine (yep, about to be destroyed)

↑ 7.5K 💬 288 image 2022

Now do you understand?

↑ 7.4K 💬 468 video 2026

My wife designed and built a custom cabinet for our stereo and LPs/CDs!

↑ 7.2K 💬 367 gallery 2025

Landlord told me I was 'hearing ghosts.' so, used a calibrated measurement mic and spectrum analyzer to prove a 38Hz mechanical vibration was penetra…

↑ 6.9K 💬 369 text 2026

I have to get something off my chest after years in this hobby.

↑ 6.6K 💬 1.4K text 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/audiophile, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/audiophile?
r/audiophile ("All about quality home stereo, gear, and reviews") describes itself this way: • 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. It was founded in 2008 and has 2.2M members.
How many members does r/audiophile have?
r/audiophile has about 2.2M members. ViralHunt has tracked 991 of its posts; the biggest reached 47.7K upvotes, which is 22 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/audiophile?
"Finally, a man of the people‼️" reached 47.7K upvotes and 811 comments in 2024, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/audiophile.
What subreddits are similar to r/audiophile?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/AnarchyChess, r/PcBuild, r/bald, r/ukraine, r/GlowUps, r/LosAngeles.
What kind of posts do best on r/audiophile?
Of the posts we hold, 30% are image posts and 27% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/audiophile?
Across 991 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 21:00 UTC (9.6K avg upvotes), Sunday at 07:00 UTC (2.9K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 12:00 UTC (2.4K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Monday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/audiophile?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/audiophile has 4.4K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 422 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/audiophile, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.