If I were...idk, co-ordinating the use of assets stationed in Germany to bomb targets in Pakistan from an office in Virginia, I might have the whole operation on Zulu, sure.

Some people sure have some strange ideas about how businesses do business. I worked at a Corningware store, and while we did have a fair bit of merch in the back, it was the same stuff we had up front, not like...super secret extra good stuff we kept hidden because...idk? We hate money?

Of course they're not, but some people are just married to these narratives big businesses are evul

Your citation tends to refute the idea retailers waste food on purpose.

They don't want to throw out 30% of their product.

Your citations don't say what you think they do, that businesses over-order by half, fully expecting the majority of product to be wasted...so to make? More money? Because...science?

My favorite part is the irony.

Dude, that's just not how businesses work. Merchants see unsold stock as failure and they cry about it. That shit costs money.

Like really, math that in your head and see if you can balance wasting 30% of stock with another 2, 3 pts (maybe) net.

No.

What stunning business acumen. Well, that's the internet for you...

I guess I see it more as...you went over to Guga's and he made you one of his A5s, and you whip out a bottle of HP sauce. So, sure...it's "wrong" but it's also pretty delicious.

I'd also note, you hear partially with your eyes and 100% with your mind, so if glowing tubes and a VU meter and more boxes and cables, that hot, static smell...appeal, no you can't get that with software.

It's sort of hard to second guess the engineer studio. All the EQ in the world and the HE1 won't turn old recordings of The Great Gildersleeve into Avatar 2 in Atmos

Indeed, you seek out a sort of AM radio sound. That's more-or-less what "warm" means

Accuracy isn't always what you're after. I wouldn't want to have a dinner date under 2000 lumens of 6500k light @95 CRI.

It's kind of like...a stick shift makes your car more fun to drive, even if you're unlikely to outwit an automatic transmission in a '24 car, really.

It doesn't match up well with how most music is performed or recorded.

Man, do we sell a lot of soda, tho.

In general I don't think I'm going to do a better job coloring the sound of gear that was tuned by professional audio engineers, but YDY; HFPTS.

If you look at RTings, in addition to frequency response there are other objective measurements that can describe headphone performance, and you can maybe learn your own ears and head and how they'd transfer those numbers into the phenomenology of listening...maybe.

It's not perfect, but your other choice is watching Christopher Suede videos and trying to assign meaning to words like thick... ephemeral...euphonic...dark...bright...warm...analytic...fast...tight...velvety

It's entirely possible that, with a blindfold on, you might not notice any difference between Nonni's secret recipe and Hunt's out of the can, but then...you don't eat spaghetti with a blindfold on, do you?

>sn’t it weird how you like Custom wrapped cables that cost $50-120 for no perceived sound quality yet you would call it “sound betta” for people that are willing to spend THE SAME AMOUNT of $$ for perceived quality?

Probably the best investment as far as improving your listening experience is reefer, although there too...is the High Times centerfold really worth more than good ol' Reggie?

I don't want to just shit all over "soundbetta" and mock people who go in for it, but you can buy real things with money.

No, no they will not. That's not how it works.

If it looks cool, it sounds betta.

You'll get all the "soundbetta" your heart can conjure, and exactly nothing that would show up on a graph. But I won't knock "soundbetta," as all sound is imaginary.