You can have more fun with ypur hifi system once you accept that rock is sound, not music.

The rock musician shuttles his fantasy sound through the circuits of a hundred watt amp, compressing, expanding, shifting phase, not of a musical note but of a voltage variation that won't be a musical note for weeks, or months, or maybe never if no one buys the album and plays it.

There's no reason why rock musicians should have all the fun or all the toys. Shift your references a little and consider yur hi-fi as an enviornmental sound system. When hi-fi began you got an amp and speakers. Over the years the amplifiers grew more knobs, speakers multiplied, and information storage systems expanded. By 1975 the perfect hi-fi system includes reel to reel 10.5" 15ips tape deck, front loading cassette deck, noise reduction, high powered Japanese amplifier, magnaplanar speakers, direct drive turntable, and graphic equalizer.