Me too. I am the exact opposite of most "music fans" in that I want the quality to be as high as possible, not just cram as much in there as I can. IMHO, the .mp3 craze of mass storage, low(er)-fidelity is what is stopping 24-bit DVD audio from taking-off. Can anyone imagine moving away from HDTV and saying, "Hey, why the hell would I want one giant screen with fantastic resolution when I can have a tiny TV with ten 'near NTSC-quality' pictures?"
Just give me a nice hand-wired vacuum-tube amp with some flat, efficient drivers. When the idustry gets around to re-issuing all those fantastic jazz albums in 24-bit (not dropped back to 16-bit CD), I'll replace my music collection .
Good points. I agree.