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@56suited ... you will soon be faced with a situation that will demand your attention to either audio quality, or to music, or to both. I once framed this as a thread here titled
Would you rather be a cloth-eared music lover or a golden-eared audiophile or something like that. Obviously that's a loaded question to provoke talk but there's a grain of truth in it. The more you learn about the relationships between audio engineering, equipment performance, psycho-acoustics, and learn to hear defects in the equipment and how they manifest in your listening experience, ..., you can imagine the rest, yes?