People who understand music may not always want good sound quality, but they care about sound quality, and they care very much. Unlike some extreme audiophiles, it is enough that the sound quality reaches a certain standard.

There are specialties in the art industry. People who write music and lyrics, or teachers who teach musical instruments and music theory are also people who understand music, but their main contact is music itself as "sound". Such practitioners do not need to delve into the details and can clearly hear what is going on. Minimum requirements.

But if you are an arranger and mixer, you must have requirements for sound quality. Better sound quality can reflect more details. Sound field, balance, orchestration, and timbre are the foundation of the music production industry. If a person who arranges and mixes music says that he doesn't care about sound quality, it is equivalent to a painter saying that it doesn't matter if he is blind.

People who care about sound quality may not necessarily understand music. Some people only use it to listen to broken glass. The so-called HIFI audition discs used in Ferry can only be said to be blind.

But as long as people who know music have the conditions, they will naturally pursue good sound quality. Playback is just one aspect. How many great pianists do you think don’t pick pianos? Some extreme people even fly around the world with their own pianos. There are all kinds of artists, some don't choose instruments at all, and some even cancel the performance temporarily because they think the sound of the instrument is not good when the humidity is high, but they are all great artists.

The average musical literacy of people who care about sound quality is definitely much higher than that of people who don’t care about sound quality. After all, caring about sound quality at least means that they listen more. But the people with the best musical literacy are definitely not the ones who care about sound quality the most.

But who cares? I also know that no matter how good the equipment is, it is meaningless to listen to recordings made before 1950, but why should I torture my ears?