Ages ago I remember reading an article that interviewed a few prominent recording artists at that time, what their home systems were. The only artist’s answer that I remember was Kenny Logins. He stated that his home system was decidedly average sound quality for the reason that when he took home recordings he was working on, he wanted to hear what his average fan was hearing regarding sound quality. What perfect sense that made to me then, and now.
I guess the key idea in that example is that the subject is “recording artist” not musicians in general. I wonder what recording engineers have in their homes. Perhaps they’re tired of listening at work and just want to watch old Honeymooners reruns when they’re done for the day. Having worked in the live performance biz for many years, I’ve noticed that live sound engineers almost to a person have mediocre to very sub par home gear. They just couldn’t care less.
to all their own,
Dave