With this "sound or music" choice, might be added another consideration. I've known many musicians (or others who have some music theory training) who have mid-fi equipment at best and care little about high-fidelity. When they listen to music they can get excited over chord progressions, voicings, harmonic textures, counterpoint, syncopation, scales used in improvisation, etc. -- all things that can be heard from a boombox. (Oh by the way, I am not insinuating that audiophilia is a compensation for not having a musicians' "BIG EARS" -- just that there is so much to hear and enjoy in music that goes beyond sound quality.
The Sound or Music
I listen to all genres of music but really enjoy it with good sound. I know of people who just love one particular type of music but don't care at all about audio. My late relative just loved classical music and had hundreds of good records but his system was like bad transistor radio. He had means but was not interested in better system at all. Music, for him was 99.9% and sound 0.1% of the pleasure. He was most likely missing half of instruments of orchestral music, he listened to - either by limited frequency response or very poor resolution. He was a music lover. Am I a music lover or just only an audio freak?
What about you?
What about you?