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? 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Let me recount my list of things no longer interested or bothered with:

1. Those who insist their 1000 dollar cables sound better than my normally priced ones. I will never find out if they do because I am not foolish enough to squander my hard earned money into anything that makes such outlandish claims.

2. those who make the assertion that raising the cables off the floor makes a difference...I call that total BS and I dont care who likes my opinion. :)

3. Anyone who insists that class AB is better sounding than a well executed class D. Sorry folks the measurements and listening tests say othrwis.

4.

Speakers that weigh 700 pounds each and cost 6 figures

Cables that cost five figures

Tweaks that cost 3 or 4 figures

Come to think of it, high end audio period! Too much overpriced, overhyped stuff that sounds no better than stuff made 20 years ago.

Y'all are having too much fun...(summoning the dream police) *beep*chatterchatter*Boop/Beep* 

Yeah, I'll hold....(azhole)....*mute*

Y'all stay still....

All DACs' do sound the same....*dangles bait before meat grinder*

*eyes soapbox* noo....

HERE...we find respite from all that noise 'out there' ...hopefully, not always...it's difficult to disconnect reality v. one's desire for simplicity and need of 'pause for one's cause', whatever that may be.
Ours is That Sound That We Seek.
Good luck on getting There.

We may need it.

I cannnot be bothered with endless discussions on particular cable superiority regardless of the kind of cable it is.

* - listening to modern rock and roll and whatever millennials call music today...

* - No Effin rap please, or hip hop, or Nine Inch Nails. No please. Music needs to coddle me and uplift me, help me relax, soothe my tortured soul, and make me feel human again. Classical, blues, some older rock and even folk music ( I know you guys hate that ). Sometimes its like drinking wine at a beer party or drinking beer at a wine party. But sometimes I just dont want what everyone else is having. If all I had to listen to was so called modern music, I would just give up and not listen to anything. I guess that makes me officially an old fart. I don't care, it is what it is.