I find it interesting that as sound quality improves, there are fewer bad recordings - it is easy to enjoy everything, as in enjoy the music, even when faults in the production are even more obvious and easy to spot.
What did I listen to today..
Hot Sardines, Live at Joe's Pub, St James Infirmary - Master at 0dB gives me a live concert in Room2.
Various tracks from Voices Of Music - very good production quality.
au/ra - pop music.
Yesterday was a longer session, some highlights:
Jøkleba, Live, Mayisha - Let's try to destroy what is left of hearing by playing this at +6dB, to see if the new wonders can handle this, and they did, sounds great, like sitting to close to the band at a live concert - physical slam in the midrange.
Hadouk Trio, Air Hadouk, Dididi - just have to hear this strange saxophone-like instrument once more.
Art Of Noise, Below The Waste, whole album - one from the old days, I can of course not remember exactly how the sound was back 20-30 years ago, but I can remember that this kind of clarity, realism, separation and definition of the instruments simply was not there.
Yes, good sound is worth the effort, and the better it sounds, the more enjoyable it is.