"Probably what, 75% to 85% of recordings are not "audiophile". So that leaves us small percentage of stuff that truly sounds out this world on our systems."
This is the great (mostly unspoken) problem with high performance audio.
It also explains the often rather strange musical choices of some of our veteran reviewers.
As our equipment gets below a sufficiently low threshold of distortion, the realisation that the music sounds progressively worse becomes an impossible one to ignore.
"If you’re unmarried, find a wife quickly. She will undoubtedly end your developing addiction in short order once she hears about what this stuff costs."
I have an understanding and tolerant wife, but yes there are real world limits.
At least for most of us.
In any case, nowadays she's not the problem
It's actually getting harder and harder to justify buying yet more equipment to myself.
So anything I buy in future needs to be substantially better or more desirable than what I already have.