My brother-in-law farmer had two or three hi-fi systems languishing in his dank basement for years that he had gotten from a cousin. I rescued one of them and that is my current system.
He did not know how to work them or hook them up etc so I got the second system (Rotel/ B&W based....mid-fi, really) set up in my cabin and it sounded pretty good, I had them come down to listen to it and offered to hook it up in their home or even his shop.
They and my wife talked through the whole audition with various forms of music that they requested. They were utterly unimpressed and did not want me to set it up for them.
It didn’t hurt my feelings or anything. Some folks are into it, some aren’t. But I did not have a use for the system, didn’t like the B&W speakers/sub and so it all went back in their basement.
In the end audiophile pursuits tend to be solitary and even when not solitary it is quiet and contemplative. If the music and the SQ don’t move someone then they’re pretty much just sitting there....which for most people is the definition of boring.
He did not know how to work them or hook them up etc so I got the second system (Rotel/ B&W based....mid-fi, really) set up in my cabin and it sounded pretty good, I had them come down to listen to it and offered to hook it up in their home or even his shop.
They and my wife talked through the whole audition with various forms of music that they requested. They were utterly unimpressed and did not want me to set it up for them.
It didn’t hurt my feelings or anything. Some folks are into it, some aren’t. But I did not have a use for the system, didn’t like the B&W speakers/sub and so it all went back in their basement.
In the end audiophile pursuits tend to be solitary and even when not solitary it is quiet and contemplative. If the music and the SQ don’t move someone then they’re pretty much just sitting there....which for most people is the definition of boring.