The crucial point is that the "solution" has to be the solution to a fantasy- and no one** has the fantasy that what they need is to degrade the sound with distortion (even if they might in fact like that distorted sound).
Well said really. Let’s not forget only that all the audio reproduction is a fantasy per se, it’s a synthetic art by how music recording industry is designed. No one listens to a kind of ‘real music’, it is ‘produced’ by many means usually.