I read the article, thanks for link.
I had noticed that all of my friends musical tastes seem to have got stuck in the era of their youth. My dad only had 5 records, all by the Beatles, and he only really liked 3 of those.
I would like to argue that my love of HiFi has had the side effect of keeping my musical taste buds fresh.
When I was young, my system was a means to an end, it was cheap gear, but it let me play “my” music. Then, once I got a job, and was earning money, I got into the kit itself. I bought better gear. I would use my music to show off my kit. I started buying audiophile records, some of which sounded amazing (in a Hi-Fi-show-off way), and I slowly came to like the actual music itself. This is how I came across classical music and jazz. I now listen to such stuff for enjoyment.
Admittedly I could never get into some of the weebly plinky plonky demo tracks one hears at shows, but the hobby did introduce me to new stuff.
Over the last decade, HiFi lead me to modern electronic music. Again I started buying/playing it because it made my system sound amazing, but again, I came to love the best of it. There really is some fantastic new music out there.
Yet I never see the good new stuff in HiFi magazines. Could we use this forum to swap pointers to good new stuff?