Interesting question Erik not that it is all that important.
Given the amount of misery in the world (things are going to get really f-ed up now) we all need diversions for enjoyment with friends, family and hobbies or we are all going to get seriously depressed. Spending time working with and adjusting your system is one way to stay happy. That is what being an audiophile is all about! Loving music is a conjoined but different endeavor. You do not need a stereo to enjoy music. Nor do you have to love music to be an audiophile, weird but it happens. People who will not listen to fabulous music because it is poorly recorded come to mind.
You adjust your system to make the music sound as good or realistic as you can using live music and great recordings as a reference. You identify weaknesses and attack them as best you can. It is not something you finish. It is an ongoing endeavor because it is very difficult, expensive and elusive. This is what make it a challenge and fun.
Unfortunately, there are factors that interfere with appropriate HiFi management and one needs to be careful. The marketing is vicious and you have to be careful how you interpret it. People always hawk what they do because they want to be right and many of them really want to help others along and may not realize they are perpetrating a myth of which there are thousands. Lastly, what you think you hear changes on a moment by moment basis. You have to be careful evaluating your own system and you have to take what other people think they hear with a grain of salt. It is just the way we are. Not that we should not talk about what we hear but you have to be very careful applying what others hear to your system and preferences. We are all human (well, most of us) and our your ears hear is being interpreted by our left temporal lobe which is a very flakey device.