1) you can have money and not be a douchebag, you can be a douchebag and not have money (though obviously, extravagant d-bags call the most attention to themselves) ... but money and character are pretty much independent variables as far as my experience goes, just like some poor folk sure ain’t nice folk
2) that being said, in my travels, i’ve found that trained musicians tend to value the realistic tonality/timbre in music reproduction rather than more ’hifi’ attributes like imaging, detail retrieval and so on
3) many working musicians are indeed busy and unless they are lucky and talented enough to be famous and successful, most don’t usually have the money to pour into a high end hifi system
4) those who are, are known to have some pretty excellent systems, like keith jarrett, fred hersch, burt bacharach, yoyo ma, gregory porter, tom harrell ...
5) but many don’t, presumably for the same reasons that many successful chefs eat very basic, elemental food at home... when something is your work, you don’t want to do a lot more of it much for pleasure
6) this may be of interest, if curious ... https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/great-photos-of-musicians-with-hi-fi-gear.941493/
2) that being said, in my travels, i’ve found that trained musicians tend to value the realistic tonality/timbre in music reproduction rather than more ’hifi’ attributes like imaging, detail retrieval and so on
3) many working musicians are indeed busy and unless they are lucky and talented enough to be famous and successful, most don’t usually have the money to pour into a high end hifi system
4) those who are, are known to have some pretty excellent systems, like keith jarrett, fred hersch, burt bacharach, yoyo ma, gregory porter, tom harrell ...
5) but many don’t, presumably for the same reasons that many successful chefs eat very basic, elemental food at home... when something is your work, you don’t want to do a lot more of it much for pleasure
6) this may be of interest, if curious ... https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/great-photos-of-musicians-with-hi-fi-gear.941493/