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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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@ozzy62 

3) speakers that fall flat when trying to reproduce Tool at 95 db

Saw them again last year and 95dB was only a brief stop on the way to 108dB.

My tinnitus was whispering in my ear to "keep the ear plugs in", but Pneuma started up and it was "screw it". 

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