Do you listen mainly to Audiophile CDs and records?


I listen mainly to classical music, and the quality of sound varies greatly from disc to disc.
I was wondering if that’s the case with rock, pop and the like.
Do you tend to listen mainly mostly audiophile media?
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I listen to music rather than audiophilia. With classical music the story is quite easy. Here I prefer modern recordings of good audio quality, for the audio quality and for the more modern interpretations, based on often extensive research into authentic perfomance practice. However, even here some of those recording are already quite old, and from the analogue days. A case in point would be N. Harnoncourt’s Bach Cantata cycle. On the other hand, I am also an admirer of Maria Callas, and those recordings often suffer atrocious audio quality. And yet....
With jazz and modern pop the story is different. Here, the original recording is the authentic performance, even if badly recorded. Kind of Blue is only Kind of Blue if it is the original Miles Davis, of course.
With the pop repertoire of the 1960’s and 1970’s that many here seem to like (I do too) the situation is horrible, of course. Recordings were often awful, and a high end system will only show that in its ugly nudity. I sometimes wonder if a PA system would not make the music sound ’better’.... What is gone is gone, and it is gone forever, unfortunately. I recently bought the Bluray of the Doors live at the Hollywood Bowl. Clearly the potential sound quality of the Bluray format was completely wasted on this recording.
With so-called "classical" the reading , not pressing quality, is my thing. Brahms symphonies under Bohm are in constant rotation on my Naim CDS3. Wish I had extra $500 for DG D2D LPs but do not care that much about Simon Rattle reading.  Wish I had that cash though... If there is no decent recording of Brahms 2nd under Mravinsky with Richter, what can you do about that? Stop listening?!?
with pop its a similar dilemma: just because Imagine Dragons are soo overcompressed, should I switch to Norah Jones instead? No, sorry!!
I always seek out best pressing of what I listen to, however at times even the best pressing doesn’t sound good, to put it mildly, so I have to live with that. It happens that at times I am in a particular mood for a good sound, then I listen to what sounds best but still it is the music I like.
I listen to a lot on youtube too thru Grado $200 phones plugged in the computer. Sound quality varies wildly and there are many performances that were never released. I don’t expect it to sound good and have no disappointment. Still, in time I am going to improve this computer/youtube playback system, but I feel no urge.
I am like most of the replyees here in that music prevails over sound quallity
Although spinning a superbly recorded CD can be very entertaining. That said one of my most played discs is Claudio Arrau playing Bach's Goldberg Variations from 1941 and I still find it musically gripping. Another thing that I like to do is catch up on concerts over the BBC I Player. These concerts are broadcast as MP3's at 320 kbs, but there are MP3's and and MP3's though.
I’m happy and somewhat surprised to hear that the overwhelming majority in this thread deny that sound is a prime factor in determining what they listen to.
After all, this is an audiophile forum.  One would expect sound to play a more important part than most people admit.