Things that “blow your mind”

Every time I look at a driver cone moving in and out, it blows my mind that this then somehow becomes music in my brain. I am a simple human. 

The biggest shock to me is finding how sound quality has regressed in many respects from where it was decades ago.  For example, many of these very best sounding recordings were made long in the past.  For example, originally pressings of Brubeck’s “Take Five” (1959) sound better than the vast majority of modern recordings; the same with Ellington’s “Blues in Orbit.’  Mercury and RCA recordings from the 1960’s are also astoundingly good.  As for gear, many speakers and drivers from the past are better than what are made today.  Show me midrange drivers better than compression drivers from Western Electric, Racon, and YL.  There are fantastic amps from more than 70 years ago that are killer good (e.g. Western Electric 124 and 133).

The price of competent audio products these days. Ridiculous

@thecarpathian wins the prize and is on a roll. 
 

“Always look at the Sonny side of life….” 

Something obviously blew my mind.   It’s the only explanation! Let me try and remember what it was…..