I quite agree. This hi fidelity things is all very well IF it provides the market with decent tunes but it doesn't. It provides humorless and pretentious tosh.
I was listening to a havok mix I did a while back and for all the technological advances in sound quality theory there's nothing on the horizon with the balls, spirit and humour of that stuff.
I'd gladly take a cut in sound quality for unforgettable tunes.