Man, I think the point has been missed altogether:
Plugs, hardware... all beaten to death by all of us. And who cares?
The question that remains and won't be answered here is:
What is music? Why do humans make it? What purpose does it serve?
It's really an odd thing to do if you think about it....
The point is, music is a human driven phenomenon and need, in whatever form that takes.
-andrews
P.S. Oh, the A6 sounds like plastic.