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Burn those straw men down! Burn, baby, burn!

Assuming your post was not tongue-in-cheek . . .

Your analogy to wine and food lovers does not hold up. I don't know any music lover who buys records for "variety." I buy records for music.

In classical, several of my favorite performances happen to have iffy to execrable sound. So what? I'm not going to listen to a mediochre performance of a work I love just because it's in great sound--life's too short. My favorite Das Lied von der Erde has crummy sound. And I can't live without it.

In rock, you buy the music you love and take what sound quality you get. With old recordings sometimes you get lovely sound (Roy Orbison, Elvis). Sometimes you get crappy sound (Stones). With modern stuff it's hard to avoid the loudness race. Waddaya gonna do? Not listen to your favorite music?

With jazz at least you get pretty fair recordings most of the time, too few were interested in dicking with the sound. But if you like the early stuff you'll take your lumps there, too.

You listen to the performances/music you love; you takes what you gets with regards to sound quality. It has ever been thus. (Holt's Law: The quality of the recording is in inverse relationship to the quality of the performance.)

Meanwhile, with every upgrade to my system more records sound good than before. Who has time to listen to great recordings of lousy performances?


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