Here is another vote for music first. Music often got me through the rough patches in life and now that I’m thankfully retired, I have the luxury of time to fully enjoy it. I now have time to explore new artists and genres of music which are often not the best recorded. I do fully agree with @sokogear that one of the joys of being an Audiophile is to be able hear familiar music in the best possible light and to hear things you never heard before. But when I force myself to listen to recordings just because they sound good, I start to get bored.