Also, I’ve met lots of audio people who seem to like the design of the system more than actually listening to music.
If this was a dinner party, I’d expect a demo and playing music to show it off. But for a lunch break at a work meeting to basically a stranger, it seems to make sense that he didn’t play anything.
Bezos's colleagues and friends often attribute Amazon's tardiness in digital music to Bezos's lack of interest in music of any kind [...] Colleagues remember that on the solemn road trip from Target's offices in Minneapolis after 9/11, Bezos indiscriminately grabbed stacks of CDs from the bargain rack of a convenience store, as if they were all interchangeable.And if he'd done that, there would be a story about how "Jeff Bezos' stereo costs more than I make in five years, and he made a bunch of employees listen to it in his boat house". Not saying the author of this article would have written it, but somebody would.