Fair enough but I’m not trying to twist the point, just that the music is more important then the sound quality for me and most musicians I know.Frank, your trying to twist the point.
Who cares about listening to music you don't like?
For the vast majority of folks who ended up here, they want to listen to the music they love on the best rig they can afford.
Not the 70 yo housewife who loves 60s rock and listens on a cheap Bose radio all day.
And the point of HiFi shows is to highlight a systems capability, something best done with SOTA quality recordings, so that's what they use.
Boring or not, what would you use, some 75 year old LP full of scratches and noise?
Just the nature of the beast.
I don’t find HiFi shows tell me much about SQ because of the music they play but definitely wouldn’t recommend a scratched LP.
I don’t recommend LPs at all, in fact, but that’s what you get at a lot of shows - the business is steeped in the myth of the superiority of analogue, when its only superiority is in the profit it makes IMO.