Why Don't We See More High Current Electronics?

Isn't clipping an even worse consequence than unbalanced frequency response alone?

"But if you're not listening to acoustic music, and are of the RR family, then quality of sound isn't what you're after as much as volume of sound."

That's a very biased perspective.

There is high quality and lesser quality non acoustic music as well. Volume is part of it because that is the nature of the beast but not the whole story by a longshot.

I would argue that it is more costly and difficult to reproduce music that is meant to be loud and powerful accurately and convincingly than it is to reproduce acoustic music that you liten to normally at lower SPLs.

It's a mistake to discount music forms that one does not care for just because one does not care about them. They are forms of music people listen to as much or even more so in practice than others.

That kind of attitude is one way how audiophiles get a bad name.

Yes- audio equipment does not care what kind of music you play on it.

An amp with a low output impedance does not have a frequency response that varies with a speaker's impedance.

That depends on how the speaker is designed. Take a look at
http://www.atma-sphere.com/papers/paradigm_paper2.html

An excellent example is a Sound Lab ESL, but by no means the only example. You can also run into frequency response variation with highly reactive speakers (high efficiency). You have to look at the intention of the designer of the speaker.

Tvad, I for one would hate to lose you, and your valued balanced contributions to this forum. This particular thread doesn't seem that contentious to me. I do hope you'll reconsider.