Amen, Bill. Musicians eat cheap so they can buy expensive vintage instruments. It’s unfortunate, but a lot of them listen to music on computers these days, and I don’t mean hirez digital streaming. It is because music is SO important to us that we spend what we do on the equipment to reproduce it well in our homes. How good a hi-fi a guy had was at one time a good indicator of how much music meant to him.
Why then do musicians almost universally have terrible hi-fis? 1- They’re poor. In the early 70’s Paul McCartney was paying his drummer in Wings Denny Seiwell $150 a week. 2- Musicians are thinking more about their own music than that of their contemporaries, not listening to recorded music nearly as much as you would think. THAT was done when they were younger, learning how to play. 3- Musician’s don’t expect reproduced sound to even remotely approach live sound. And since few of them have ever heard a really good system (since few of them or their peers have one), they don’t know how much better recorded music can sound through good gear.