HiFi vs Music- a comparison

I follow four forums that have both Hifi and Music rooms. In three out of the four there are many more postings about hifi than the music. I admit that to truly get emotionally involved in the music it takes both great gear and great music. But at the same time people who are passionate about the gear should also be passionate about the music. It is all well and good for an epicure to obsess over which type of flatware and china plates to scoff the haute cuisine with, but without at least an equal emphasis on the food, it does become rather pointless. 

Here are some very rough ratios of Hifi:Music postings between those forums

Naim   4:1

PF   1.5:1

Linn (if you group together DS, LP12 and General Hifi threads)  6:1

Steve Hoffman   1:4

Now I know that each venue attracts a different subset of people, but I would have expected there to be greater parity between level of interest in the hifi and music dialog. And certainly it is easier to discover new music through discourse than new hifi. 

I would have put this in the Music Room, but nobody would have read it  This is not a criticism, merely an observation. Do we care too much about hifi, or too little about music?