as has been said, one can get most of the benefits of listening to music on a table radio, that one gets from listening to music played through a well set-up stereo system.
Benefits
.hum. Weather you mean a true benefit (as in lowered blood pleasure, relief from stress, contentment, etc.), or emotional sensation (gratification, enjoyment, exhilaration, etc.), this is a flawed premise either way. I listen to talk radio in the car, where I spend a great deal of time, because I benefit from that format so much more than from listening to music via the radio. I am a music lover, which lead me to become an audiophile. When the music is involving it memorizes me, when it is played through even a decent car stereo, it often becomes an Annoyance. The whole point of perfecting the soundstage, timbre, image, clarity, dynamics and the nuances is to benefit the listener. The gear is the obsessive component of this neurosis; the end result, or the music, is the passion (or, as you have identified it, the benefit). Albeit, the result can be challenging.
