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? 

 

 

 

 

 

 

128x128msbel

No. 3... Girl singers you can't hear for the thumping band.   Maybe they can't sing, just say'in.

No. 2... Heavy equipment of any sort

No. 1... People who hate equipment, cables and speakers who have never heard them. 

If you haven't heard it or can't afford it; too bad, you don't have an opinion. 

 

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.