Originally Posted by
speedracer
You have to put the horse before the cart, music should always be the thing that draws you into our hobby of high fidelity surely? Even as a young boy I can remember being moved by music so much, despite hearing it through less than ideal replay systems, my mum was a massive Beatles fan so I always had something to play the records on & at the time never thought for a second about how to improve the sound, I just loved it for what it was. I have an interest in vintage radios, especially valve ones, & just loved hearing live broadcasts on them, as I still do, low fidelity or not. Technology brought more sophistication into music reply as i grew older, & I welcomed it heartily, striving always to improve what I could hear within my budget, but not once has it ever occured to me to stop listening on radio or car stereo, music is music.