Why isn’t more detail always better?


Is more detail always better if not unnaturally bright or fatiguing?

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More detail being retrieved  is due to lower noise floor, my position is this is an inherently good thing. My take is why would one want to obscure music with higher noise floor, noise floors are comprised of electronic artifacts, resonances in equipment, room modes, environmental noise. I don't want to hear noise, I want to hear the lowest level mix in recordings, that being performers and their instruments, recording venue info.

 

And so its presentation that is the problem, that may be an issue with one's system or the recording, one you can fix, the other you can't.

Interested in what others have to say about these things.  

It seems to me you are more interested in what you want to hear yourself tell us about these things.

Seriously, you answered your own question in the OP.

Why isn’t more detail always better?

Because it can be 

Is more detail always better  if not unnaturally bright or  and fatiguing?