Has your HiFi changed your musical tastes

Like Mapman, I listen to anything now, as long as the recording is in excellent condition, just to here how it sounds.

In general no. But, I do listen to something different once in a while that they did a great job recording it, capturing it the way I'd like to see my preferred music recorded. Some jazz will sound good on a mid-fi system because of the way they captured it. I'm guessing less mikes and gear needed/used in comparison to classical is part of the reason. Some of the older rock music sounds like they had the mikes mounted right up against the instruments, with the VU meters banging at the top of the red scale.

Yes I became more interested in classical music. I attribute this to two things the time I would devote to listening and a more resolving system.

....nope.

music and sound are different phenomena. what determines preference for specific music is independent for what type of "sound" one likes.

thus , my musical tastes have changed very little since i was in high school. I have always liked jazz and classical, but occasionally listen to "new age", especially electronic-based music and some blues and bluegrass. my expension into other musical genres had nothing to do with sound quality.