East is East, and West is West, as the saying goes, and never the twain shall meet, and so it is with equipment lovers and music lovers.
Why not trying something more sophisticated than left and right or black and white?
Why not trying to look for music lovers who cherish the equipment also, or to some music lovers who without money succeed to reach real audiophile sound experience with low cost means and science?
And after discovering that there exist 4 categories why not exploring the rest of the audio world?
In the music lover side, by the way, do you goes on distinguishing rock lovers and classical music lovers?
If you do, remember that there exist group of people who like the 2 kind of music and this is a third category to add also....
i am myself in my own unique category with only one member....
I dont give a dam about equipment, i prefer to control my environment and the acoustica of the room at NO COST...
I like very peculiar musicians and composers and not so much all the others....
I listen to gong music....
I refuse membership....
I also try to keep the world out of the binary traps categories game.....
I apologize if my post may seems rude....
I dont like much binary thinking......