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Glutton for Punishment?

Good day to the community!  I’m in the middle of a major system overhaul/upgrade.  Last night, an unusual thought occurred to me.  I was standing ankle deep in zip ties, various cables and cords, tubes and a plethora of equipment.  I was in a very uncomfortable position, sweating profusely, starting to cramp up and a bit disoriented and nauseous due to the various solvents and cleaner fumes.  Any sane person would not tolerate such a state.  Then it occurred to me, there was absolutely nothing I had rather been doing at that precise moment!  Masochism?  Stoic?  Insane?

We spend ridiculous amounts of money on this hobby and for me at least, I’m always looking for the next upgrade, the next best thing, the ultimate audio nirvana.  Couple that with the aforementioned discomfort, and I’m left with little doubt that I was born to suffer.  Sound familiar?  

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teo_audio
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Your hearing may not be as acute as when young but your discernment is improved and the distortions that we find fault with are mostly a temporal and harmonic and level phenomena, and have only partial relation with sine frequency.

That’s why an 80 year old with hearing that does not go past 4-5khz in sine tests can tell your tweeter sounds like crap (or not). 

Or hear fuse changes. and so on. The map is not the territory and whatnot.

That part of your hearing never goes away and your discernment powers pretty well always go UP as you age.
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