We can listen music on anything...
Furtwangler will stay a genius on an Ephone...,.
I prefer good sound but music has nothing to do with AMPLIFIED sound...
A stradivarius is not a 50 bucks violin and any violonist will care about the SOUND of his instrument... But the same violonist could listen music on a ephone and do not care so much about his sound system...
there is three vocabulary for three different fields here :
the vocabulary of audio : soundstage, imaging, harshness, digfital,analog , etc
the vocabulary of acoustic : reflection-diffusion-absorption- resonance reverberation time etc
The vocabulary of music : rythm, hamony, tonality, atonality, polytonality, arpeggio, polyphony, melody, etc
These three vocavulary intersect in the timbre concept and experience for example but describe it in three different perspectives...
Half of audiophiles at least know more about the gear varieties than about music varieties and they know even less about acoustic...😊
Acoustic and psycho-acoustic is the heart of audio not the gear....
And i listened most of my life music by geniuses on bad audio system... Because of budget choice...
Some are even scandalized that i listened music on cd instead of turntables... But half of the persian and Indian music i listened to was on cd not on vinyl... And i never listened pop music then i dont care about vinyl...Turntable maniac dont listen indian raga not turkisch sufi music.... All way more available on the cd format ...
And when you buy thousand and thousand of books you dont buy thousand and thousand vinyl... I was not Bill Gates... 😊
Then you are not alone stuartk...
But I realize I’m probably in a minority, here.