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Things we cannot be bothered by anymore

Occurred to me today that I have dropped stuff that I cannot just be bothered by anymore, and wondering what some of you out there have let go of as well 

Me (lean mostly into analog)

- Lifting a tonearm lever to cue a platter - no more - years off my life

- Carbon brushes, cart cleans with every spin or two - years off my life

- Ugly racks that look like ones I had in 10th grade, though cost 20x more - out 

- Listening at low volume levels to gauge audiophile purity

- A/B'ing streaming platforms 

Finale - $50 audiophile pressings "remastered from the original master tapes" that sound like sanitized cheese spread - magic gone, warped, drop-outed, bubbled, and gain-whacked (there are exceptions for sure)

 

How about you? 

 

 

 

 

 

 

msbel

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Don't get me started...

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You guys inspire me:

1. YouTube videos where the poster blabbers about anything except the point of why you clicked in the first place.

2. Small type. Can’t read it, MAKE IT BIGGER! Related: Ads with a black background and small gray type. Idiots.

3. $100k speakers (and subwoofers extra). Why do $100k speakers NEED subwoofers?

4. Songwriters that don’t know how to write songs. Apparently, writers these days don’t know how to develop a song. Give you EVERYTHING in the first verse and have nothing (new) for the last. Also, stupid repetition. Changing a single word in a subsequent verse (hey! Don’t cost anything!) shows that you’re, at least, awake.

Hey you kids! Get off my song!

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