Here is my theory on people and music appreciation:
I am a college student and have always loved listening to, and playing music, but my impression is that most people who claim to love music, love it for the wrong reasons. They like a certain song or group because is trendy or popular, or because they can dance to it at a club. If they like older stuff, like classic jazz, for example, they like it because it is "cool" to like it. Or else they enjoy music in the background, as something to set the mood and break up boring silence, but not as something to be listened to very intently, and therefore not to be played at volumes that force you to concentrate on it intently. Few people appreciate the details of what music actaully sounds like. A person who doesn't care what a piece of music sounds like will have little interest in the equipment that is reproducing it. The only way my new RB-75's have impressed any of my friends is by how loud they can go, and, perhaps surprisingly, by how much bass they can produce - for people used to listening to everything on cheesy computer speakers, headphones, or boomboxes, the RB-75's must sound like they have a built in subwoofer - lets see what they think when I get my PB2+ But they just like loud and bass - it makes for a good party - they don't care about the details.
I don't want to come off as a snob here - while I think what I say is accurate, I don't have a problem with it. I realize that if one of them loves, say, collecting stamps, I would probably react in the same clueless way when they show me their most rare and prized acquisition. To each his own I say.
James