What is your reason for hi-fi?

[Marco]

Yebbut it's not just about that for me,and I didn't mean just volume-wise,I meant the emotional connection to the music.That's what I'm looking for.

Yebbut, yebbut, did you miss the last paragraph in an earlier post where I mentioned precisely that (and I'm not talking here just about 'volume'):

It is creating that perceived musical 'realism', and thus emotional connection with the performance, whether it's balls-out rock music or the spine-tingling intimacy of a small-scale jazz ensemble, or similar acoustic-based performance, that for me personally is what having a top-notch hi-fi system is all about.....

And also here:

I want my system to successfully capture the sheer vibrancy, dynamics and 'texture' of the real thing - only then will I be able to suspend disbelief in the way you describe above, and truly achieve that all-important emotional connection with my favourite music.

You can have both 'realism' and 'emotional connection', you know! In fact, I'd say that successfully achieving the former almost guarantees the latter

Marco.