No one pay attention to the sound quality if he is not a music lover first and last...
All old audiophile or younger one here love music first....
But there is commercially "fabricated" music and music of higher craftmanship...
The frontier between these two extremes is not clear cut at all but at the two extreme musak ascensor music is not an Indian Raga or a Bach piece...😊
Most music oscillate toward these two levels of qualities : genuine craftmanship and mere fabrication...
In an era of consumerism the content of musical products declined toward varieties of usefullness and needs to be surprized or the needs to be programmed ( as robots are ) and all these three factors together...
Then because music as acoustic must be LEARNED and is not understood at birth, especially other culture music or peculiar esthetical one as Jazz or classical, we assist to a decline in the number of people invested in audio stereo system for the sake of musical content itself...
It is not about money, there is an offerings of low cost high quality products right now in amplification and dac in particular as there is never been so much in the past ...
People are overstimulated ( tv,computer and cell phone and the rythm of life and work i hate so much cell phone i dont own one new but a prehistoric one with no usable computer screen , it is a foldable one and smaller than the usual everyone own now ) and over stimulation is like a drug , they need the drug, and the changes, and the novelties...They consume...They dont seat to listen in a concentrated directed attentive way for hours the art of the fugue and compare it to many versions... They dont meditate on the time perception in Indian raga...😊
Then they dont need a sophisticated audio system , acoustically sophisticated, not necessarily very costly, because they consume varieties of short pleasures and stimuli in short span EVERYWHERE....
Listening music is a sacred event.... In ONE place.... Because we need to contentrate...Ectasy is a sacred experience in a way a repetitive annoying masturbation is not...And music may be an ectasy for those of us who are so much moved toward it that we try hard to create an acoustic corner around it with even costly gear...
Multitasking is for robots by the way....No genius multitask... They focus in the opposite without end on specific problem ... Multitasking is the first sign of a desintegrating attention or the sign of a well integrated ROUTINE and set of habits at some work... But there is no multitasking in martial arts for example...In multitasking we lost the larger attention field behind the focus centered attention and we lost the focus attention to some extent too ...In multitasking with are in a RYTHM.... Like robots... And the rythm does not emerge freely from the body and metabolism as in African dance for example but is IMPOSED on the body and metabolism by the different tasks we must do at the same time...
Slaves multitask .... Free man think....
Our corporate master want us to multitask in the mean time they will think for us...