I realise that this is an area where people rise rather too easily but I'll give an analogy. If you're talking to someone in a noisy pub, you have to concentrate hard to ignore the background noise to pick out his voice. It's the same with hi fi only not so bad and you don't realise you're doing it.
Please repeat the Cambridge experiment and think about what I've said, because it's fact and proved. It's also wrong IMO to assume you enjoy distortion, because in the long term you don't.
By the time the average male is 35 years old his hearing sensitivity at 3kHz has dropped by a factor of ten, he's going deaf slowly, it goes on getting worse and at the same time he loses the ability to withstand high SPLs. As your ears deteriorate so the brain has to work harder to process the information it receives. Therefore the older or deafer you are the more obvious it becomes that there is tremendous advantage in having very accurate and neutral hi fi. Younger people have better hearing so can tolerate horrid portable TVs etc, when it's causing DAD and MUM pain!
You may think you enjoy distortion, but presented with a worthwhile improvement in sound quality and given time to adjust, you'll find you much prefer it. It's hard to imagine but it's true and that's the reason the term High Fidelity was coined, it means a greater faithfullness to the original recording/performance. And that's the rub, for far too long no one appears to either have described the goal or how to achieve it, instead misleading terms like musicality etc have been used as a way of avoiding the issue. We, as more and more people do, think it should stop and that a return to basics is needed. It's happening in the USA already and it's beginning to happen in the UK.
Ash