I have no audiophile-preferred system. iTunes ripped at 352kbps or something like that, with $20 earbuds. I have a friend with a tube amplifier and electret speakers. Many thousands of dollars. It's in (I think) the "living room", but that room is big enough for a square dance. For example, the grand piano is...way...over on the other side of the room. Enough floor space to swing many cats. Those electret speakers make it sound like the band is right there in the room! My house has the wife's sh...tuff piled everywhere. No room for anything other than my laptop on the dining room table, and not much room there, either.
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.