Originally Posted by
WhyFi
Haven't listened to any other than your dad's old, raggedy 'table with a thumbtack for a stylus?
Limitations that you have yet to experience!
Eh, we can go on all day - me telling you what's what because I've experienced it and you telling me what's what because you're read about it. Why don't we just leave it at this - next time you're in NYC, stop on by - I'll buy you a few rounds to wash down that crow

You're making lots of unfounded and, as it happens, incorrect assumptions.
I understand that some people find noise, distortion, compression, unpredictable frequency response and other media induced artifacts pleasing, but don't pretend it's in any way an accurate representation of the music.