Encouraging people to consider a traditional 2 channel stereo system.

Think about it. Let's say you got interested in audio in the 60's, 70's, even the 80's.  What were the options?  What would you have been into in the following decades?  I honestly can't say for myself. In the 60's and 70's I  was all into better sound.  I was horrified riding with friends who had an 8 track in their vehicle. The stuff others had at home was beyond horrible, although they felt that, turning it up loud enough, made it all ok.  There were some good electronics back then, i.e. Dynaco et al.., but the speakers were crap. I mean, really, essentially crap.  The high end meant acoustic suspension, like AR. That meant lots of bass, and play it loud.  There wasn't streaming, there weren't  AirPods, tubes were out and terrible SS was in, and then, for heaven's sake, came "perfect sound" and digital, as though no one was actually listening to this stuff.  I remember going a few miles to a hifi shop in Jacksonville and hearing Heart's Dreamboat Annie played on a set of Dahlqiust DQ-10's.  What the hell!  I was hooked!  Nowadays that would lkely not have occurred. Although good old 2 channel still remains the best, the other options are quite distracting, not to mention easy.  You can hook your phone up to a couple of wireless speakers or earphones and it's pretty good. For most people pretty good is good enough. In times past, those were 8 track people.  There are more of them now, and for them that's just fine. I go crazy riding with people like my son who has background streaming stuff going in his car all the time.  It's hard to introduce real 2-channel audio to people for whom music is like riding in an elevator.  It's not like decades ago when the difference was more extreme and the options less. Face it, most people read trash novels and have no perception of the great books. It's no different in audio. Most people, for better or for worse, are simply not going  to be connoisseurs.  But some people always will be.  It's just not as easy for them to find the good stuff as it once was.  You never know.  My #2 son, in his 40's, suddenly discovered classical music and started learning piano and going to concerts. My #1 son, who is a natural musician, is still living with Nirvana and tapping his fingers along with his car streamer set to background volume.  You can't worry about this. Just enjoy what you enjoy, show interested others what you have, and don't sweat the small stuff.  There's a whole lot of small stuff.