jane hamble... With 39 posts, I read all your posts. You read like a younger version of myself. Congratulations, and good luck (you will need it)
In my 70th year on this planet I find I do not hear much NEW music worth listening to. Of all the ’top’ albums in the past fifteen years, I have found only a few I like. I bought them on LP. My audio life is pretty much enjoying the past 100 years of recorded music. Rock, Jazz and Classical in equal measure. Most recent/new Rock/Pop music generally is made up of bands incapable of inventing new music, playing basic chords over and over (badly BTW), bad sounding singers with poor technique droning on about stuff I could care less about! I spend my listening time with stuff I like.
If not enjoying the endless stream of new drivel makes me a closed mind. no problem.I accept the mantel and wear it like a crown.
If you are writing about not being interested in new equipment? MQA is not the first new thing in the Universe. It may work, it may fail. Basically I stated not my problem, and why. Beyond that it does not matter (to me). It may matter to you? Again not my problem.