I think you nailed it .
Not for me, yes, I enjoy the music I enjoy but I also appreciate how things work. I'm an EE by trade with better than average mechanical skills. I understand how digital audio works, I know that even with my tiered ears that MP3s don't sound as good to me as FLAC ( and know why ). When it comes to TTs, I appreciate the simplicity of a manual turntable and the complexity of a fully automatic one. Even things like what was done to keep that LP spinning at the right speed. Then there's the whole stream of what the stylus and cartridge are doing as the needle follows the record groove, the thought given to not enough head mass vs too much ( the science behind the whole tone arm ), all the way to the amplification paths, and reproduction at the speakers.
To me, the art doesn't stop at the music.
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