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Re:If you don't tinker, you don't have taste by wiseowise on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @12:01PM (#45748674)
> I use $20 headphones and a $200 TV because I can't tell what "good" is, and I enjoy music and movies as much as my friends with $600 headphones and $3k TVs do.

It's the same argument as "why do you spend so much time and money on food, it's going to become shit anyway".

No, just no. You can close your eyes, chant lalala with plugged ears and inhale all sorts of copium, but listening uncompressed music and movies on expensive equipment is a completely different experience, period. You can't say that you enjoy it as much as they do, because you are you and they are they.

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Re:If you don't tinker, you don't have taste by stavros on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @12:24PM (#45749072)
You misunderstand the point, I'm afraid. It's not that better things aren't better, it's that they don't increase your enjoyment of the better thing, but decrease your enjoyment of the worse thing.
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