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Re:Analogue radio in the UK given 10-year stay of execution by raverbashing on Sunday July 05, 2020 @08:18AM (#23738124)
The first one

It's similar to listening to a song over good headphones instead of crappy notebook speakers for example

You start hearing all the details that were added to the sound.

It's like seeing a movie on the cinema rather than in a small TV for example

Re:Analogue radio in the UK given 10-year stay of execution by Retric on Sunday July 05, 2020 @11:22AM (#23739353)
Additional details is not always a net plus, IMO some recordings are significantly worse with ‘better’ audio equipment. For example the sounds of people repositioning their hands across musical instruments really bothers me.
Re:Analogue radio in the UK given 10-year stay of execution by heavenlyblue on Sunday July 05, 2020 @06:50PM (#23742805)
> For example the sounds of people repositioning their hands across musical instruments really bothers me.

Would you prefer to be blind because if you can see you can also see a dead body?

Re:Analogue radio in the UK given 10-year stay of execution by Retric on Sunday July 05, 2020 @07:17PM (#23743016)
Blindness is a straw man argument. I am saying for specific content there are limits to optimum resolution. If we are talking high vs low resolution, then no I don’t want to see extremely high resolution in focus pictures of corpses. Do you?
Re:Analogue radio in the UK given 10-year stay of execution by heavenlyblue on Monday July 06, 2020 @06:26AM (#23746368)
Let’s be honest, your argument is no less straw man than mine.

Why not watch high-resolution images of corpses? People working in medicine do this all the time.

You’re clearly making a Luddite argument: under the circumstances of two things being the same but one of them providing a worse resolution anyone reasonable would pick the higher resolution, because you can always go back to a lower resolution but not vice-versa.

Re:Analogue radio in the UK given 10-year stay of execution by Retric on Monday July 06, 2020 @07:25AM (#23746722)
I think most people seeing such images are watching documentaries of the Holocaust, news reports of violent crimes etc. Looking away from the screen is a very common reaction, but these shots also tend to avoid closeups because most people don’t want to see it. For a more direct example people turn down gore settings in games because more detail is not always better.

A Luddite argument would suggest all media was better at lower resolution, but that’s not what I am saying. Rather specific media for specific people is. Clearly some people want all the gory details even if I don’t.

PS: > you can always go back to a lower resolution

Having a preference is not the same as having a willingness to edit every YouTube video etc I see.

Re:Analogue radio in the UK given 10-year stay of execution by zepolen on Sunday July 05, 2020 @09:36AM (#23738528)
Right but it's only when going back to the lower quality version where you realize just how much is missing. So it's the second.

Regular display pixels only became annoying after using a Retina display for a while and then going back. They were fine before.

Re:Analogue radio in the UK given 10-year stay of execution by nicoburns on Sunday July 05, 2020 @09:47AM (#23738594)
I disagree with this. I bought decent speakers (they were £300, so good quality but nothing crazy), and I suddenly started enjoying songs that I couldn't understand why anyone liked before, because I could hear details in parts of the music where there were none before.
Re:Analogue radio in the UK given 10-year stay of execution by zepolen on Sunday July 05, 2020 @10:26AM (#23738907)
Got an example of such a song?
Re:Analogue radio in the UK given 10-year stay of execution by b1c837696ba28b on Sunday July 05, 2020 @11:22AM (#23739348)
Sure, a whole record: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Judges_Ruth

C.f. any other record with good dynamic range and interesting stuff below 80Hz.

Re:Analogue radio in the UK given 10-year stay of execution by beenBoutIT on Sunday July 05, 2020 @01:59PM (#23740537)
This phenomena you've described could be part of why Lovett's so misunderstood.
Re:Analogue radio in the UK given 10-year stay of execution by toyg on Sunday July 05, 2020 @12:51PM (#23740045)
> Regular display pixels only became annoying after using a Retina display for a while and then going back. They were fine before.

Not really. I noticed fewer headaches and eyes getting dry less often after about a month.