Many years ago, I was listening to my old receiver, more as background music without listening intently, yet enjoying the music, and it took a few hours (lazy Sundaynafternoon) before I realized my receiver was set to mono instead of stereo. 'nuff said.
Oh my kids mess with the stereo all the time. Bass way up, balance all the way L or R... sometimes I fix it but yeah, as background music it's fine like that, I'll fix it next time I get off the couch
Altho we have some REM that was ripped at 64 when I was ripping some spoken-word stuff at around the same time and that does sound pretty cruddy. But you're right.
Many years ago, I was listening to my old receiver, more as background music without listening intently, yet enjoying the music, and it took a few hours (lazy Sundaynafternoon) before I realized my receiver was set to mono instead of stereo. 'nuff said.
Altho we have some REM that was ripped at 64 when I was ripping some spoken-word stuff at around the same time and that does sound pretty cruddy. But you're right.
As usual, I'm listening to RP music on let's call it a decent system with quality headphones and surfing the Net and came across heated debates on whether MP3 128 kbps is acceptable, whether one should go to 320 kbps or FLAC and also MP3 vs AAC etc. I was listening to the just-played Love Is The Drug by Roxy Music. That took me back to my University days and discos etc. We were SO SO happy to be able to buy the LP, live with the scratches and occasional hop/skip/jump. Or even worse buy the cassette version and watch it being chewed up on the very first listen!
Remember when CDs came out, people said they were not as warm as LPs? And now people talk about lossless ripping of aforesaid CDs, buying latest remastered-gold edition-picked by widow/widower-limited edition CDs. Ha Ha.
Don't get me wrong. Pursuing perfection is how we progress as a species, but sometimes we should "stop and smell the roses" or in our case here, just "listen" to the music, (also the title of a song from my favorite Doobie Brothers). A good song is a good song even if it comes out of an old mono transistor radio.
Altho we have some REM that was ripped at 64 when I was ripping some spoken-word stuff at around the same time and that does sound pretty cruddy. But you're right. 