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@khurtwilliams thanks for this, I agree, even though film has absolutely no appeal to me. It’s akin to what I consider the difference between “shooting gear” and “shooting pictures” (or in the audio sphere “listening to equipment” and “listening to music”). Chasing objective perfection can drain all the fun out of an activity, I feel.

@mangochutney That’s exactly what I think too. I know a man, a nice and good older man, and he have a “listening room”, with SACDs and music equipment for several ten thousands of dollars worth, and I lent him a couple of CDs (ordinary CDs), and one of them he said was great, but the other one he couldn’t even listen to, because of inferior audio quality. I couldn’t hear much difference between the quality of them, but I could enjoy both for their musical quality. I grew up listening to Radio Luxembourg 🇱🇺 and the audio quality weren’t good, but they played music that NRK, the Norwegian national broadcaster didn’t, and it was great! @khurtwilliams

@odd I can completely understand that.

@odd Out of curiosity, which cds was it?

@odd @mangochutney my dad was an audiophile and he certainly spent good money on good equipment. But I never felt that he was in pursuit of perfection. He thoroughly enjoyed the music.

@khurtwilliams there’s a fine line to this, I think and it hovers somewhere below the line drawn by the law of diminishing returns.

@khurtwilliams Yes, the man I was mentioning certainly had a good taste in music as well as having certain criteria for what he considered worth listening to, but he, (said himself), that he had a special chair he had modified, and would use hours moving one millimeter at a time, to get the optimal listening experience.

Although I certainly can appreciate good audio quality, it’s mostly about the feeling the music itself can give me, so I’m very forgiving of poor audio quality.

@odd OMG! Moving my chair a millimeter just to optimise the 0.00001% different I "think" I can hear, that seems insane to me.

@khurtwilliams Right? 🙄

@odd @khurtwilliams that fine line I spoke of, this person has clearly crossed it.

@mangochutney brought to my attention by a link on The Online Photograph: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPazywXrqJo&feature=emb_title

@khurtwilliams HOLY SHIT!