Things we cannot be bothered by anymore

Amps that have more than one letter in their CLASS rating

@dweller 

Just drop one nugget on us 

@ozzy62 

#3 - tremendous - stress release does not start leaving my body until 80db or so ... 

Appreciating and experiencing incredible sound without the manic need to own it right then and there ... not easy 

Approaching demos with the mindset of "what is weak here" before even firing it up, then leaning into a listening positing looking for faults - this is my own character defect in life overall - WIP 

@curiousjim 

Excellent - and then of course there is "punches above its weight" - what weight?

And this ties into the infamous loophole in all YT reviews, "best in its price class" - seems sort of limiting in that other products "punch above their weight" eh? 

Cannot be bothered by no tolerance for pops here and there on an original vinyl pressing of Mingus' "The Clown" that sounds infinitely better than any $50 reissue ,,, and I just listened to both. 

Anything out in the world that may rob me of the joy I find in music ... there is a time and place to head down the spiral of despair, whatever the cause, however, not when I am locked into a groove - that is my sacred space - and that will not be forfeited - full stop. 

Hard wired RCA cables from tonearms that will not reach inputs  

Dismissing the golden era of CD's, where some of these box sets and jackets are intricate works of art, and WILL be in museum exhibits at MOMA one day (if they have not already) - e.g. Bowie cards in Station to Station box set, TH box where each jacket includes an original work of art, Goodbye Babylon engraved (by hand) and singed block type on a large wooden slide box, Seven Steps to Heaven tissue tracing illustrations, and on and on and on.

LP's the same for decades as we know, and have been in countless global high profile art exhibitions around the world. Robert Frank's many images on Exile on Main Street at the Frank exhibit at MOMA last year case in point. 

If some sound like crap, well, we are hearing the same master on (pick your platform). YMMV.