Which camp are you in….music or illusion?
“The quality of any given recording will make or break the listening experience” is illogical. The quality of the music transcends the quality of the recording or the illusion of the system reproducing the music.
I know many music lovers who value lower quality recordings and rare bootleg records. Some collect rare events like concerts illegally obtained from primitive cassette recorders over perfect studio albums. Others have radio shows made on early mono reel to reel recorders that even the radio stations have erased.
Music in the home is not made any more superior because of the gear it’s played through. If the source is a bad performance, it remains a bad performance. Real music lovers are not 100% obsessed or worried about the recording quality. If you can’t accept that then chuck away all your old archival recordings in low fidelity, and never even consider listening to the original greats.
Sorry OP but in my opinion you have your priorities all wrong with recordings being paramount. The recording is not the defining point for a true music lover.
The real question is are you a music lover or just out for a listening experience….. two different things and which ball you want to fetch.