Mountainsong, I share your disappointment that the music itself is not discussed much more on these boards here. One site where it is discussed very much more is the audio asylum.
There are unfortunately many audiophiles that get so caught up in their equipment that they aren't even really listening to the music anymore at all, and never attend live concerts, and have lost all reference to what live acoustically produced music actually sounds like, even though most of them continue to state that that is their standard for what their system is supposed to sound like.
Please understand that this is of course not to say that their opinions have no value. I have learned a great many technical things about the equipment itself from some of these folks I have just described. But as a professional musician, it is very saddening sometimes to realize how little some audiophiles know/understand about music itself.
There are unfortunately many audiophiles that get so caught up in their equipment that they aren't even really listening to the music anymore at all, and never attend live concerts, and have lost all reference to what live acoustically produced music actually sounds like, even though most of them continue to state that that is their standard for what their system is supposed to sound like.
Please understand that this is of course not to say that their opinions have no value. I have learned a great many technical things about the equipment itself from some of these folks I have just described. But as a professional musician, it is very saddening sometimes to realize how little some audiophiles know/understand about music itself.