Well your mind had to find some way to justify your purchases
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âWhat if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.â -Woody Allen
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I think I had a similar conversation once before at a Phish concert. 
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I apologize for my rants. I will now retire for the night. lol.
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Youâre also all talking about mixing, mastering, EQing, room⌠Thereâs a ton of live recordings, live streamings, electronic music done with headphones⌠Or you know, just video recorded with your smartphone, and for sure you get an advantage when you use âneutral-ishâ stuff with that.
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No worries man lol! Good night 
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And ears!!
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Iâm just going to file that under the gear category lol
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Haha. The real ones, not the mini dsp kind! 
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The point is that the recorded music doesnât make it to the artist/record execs ears by magic from the media. It does it through equipment, the headphones or speakers will have at least 0.5% THD, so picking an amp or DAC based on the best THD isnât really making things more neutrally.
Anything over about 65 dBâs SNR is irrelevant compared to the error in the transducers in the system.
If you actually look at the measurements of ladder based DACâs, they for all relevant purposes measure entirely flat and this is true for everything short of some tube amps.
Transducers dwarf everything else in the system for frequency response errors.
So the differences that people are hearing are far more subtle, your really just tweaking the sound of the transducer in the system.
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Looking forward to the future where I can upgrade to the ears proâ˘
(Although what if itâs no difference in sound and just a cool color scheme like the clear pros)
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In the future, perfect sound reproduction will be possible by directly implanting chips into our brains and directly sending the signals so we perceive sound perfectly without relying on our ears⌠and then of course⌠audiophiles will still prefer the sound of turntables and R2R DACs
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Itâs just the colors, and maybe more gain.
Ah yes more gain to compensate when you have hearing loss from mastering at reference level
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Harmonic Distortions alla tinnitusâŚ
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Lol, I would prefer the naturalness of my âbrokenâ ears to everything âtranshumanism-audiophiliaâ.
I want the cat ears version. 
cough And a catgirl 
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Hell yeah brother 
Although headphones would become quite the issue
Yknow⌠Iâve listend to music through my Focal Clears⌠and my cat will be in my lap⌠then all of a sudden sheâll look up at me like âWTF was that?!â⌠makes me wonder if there is some higher frequency going on that freaks her out sometimes. lol
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Those magnesium drivers!