It’s too bad that dream HiFi system wasn’t completed until well after the age at which most people’s hearing begins to naturally deteriorate. Kind of like losing your virginity at age 75. Yeah, it may have still been an ok experience but he’ll never know how intense it would’ve felt as a younger man.
Still, there's the relative-experience factor:
No matter where he went in the world he'd be extremely-unlikely to be able to enjoy a better listening experience, so for him, it's still the real deal.