Hifi, why bother?

[Amie]

Maybe a few like minded people who are prepared to ignore specifications, could start a new movement in audio, based solely on listening pleasure.

An absurd rhetorical device.

Already done, I'm afraid.

I know! I was being facetious. But as it's being discussed, the point is that its a very personal thing, a persons preference of how they enjoy music, so how is it that its a big business? Do people enjoy being told what to like? And then expect to have to pay for the pleasure of somebody providing it?

I don't understand!

Back to the practice Amp, with its deliberately distorted output feeding a speaker that probably spent the first twenty years of its life stapled inside some crummy TV, I wonder if some good studio equipment could recreate it   

Thanks.
Amie.