All your points are well taken @rok2id . I have a USB Hard drive with all my music on it. It has a directory named "DEMO" where a copy of all my favorite demo tracks live so I don't have to go searching and even worse remember where I hid all the good stuff.
Highly Questionable Music Suggestions.
Often when I peruse audiophile hardware reviews, in the
review will be a mention of the particular selections of music used to evaluate
the hardware.
Maybe someone is getting a kick back because I no longer buy those mentions before I carefully listen to them. Maybe those are well recorded “test” selections as an example, but lacking in any musical merit? One selection I tried today today was techno disco babble, not even music. No lyrics, no melody, no harmonies and no voices.
Allowing for different tastes and different generations still I wonder if I should trust this person’s ear/taste for any reason.