I agree that we, in this hobby, obsess about the imperfections and sound artifacts that annoy us rather than the sound and the enjoyment of the music as a whole. However, given that we are into this hobby to enjoy higher quality sound reporduction of the music we love, it gets frustrating when we try to enjoy listening to music when it's reproduced poorly.
Those little nuances in the music and the recording that either annoy us or send us into nirvana are what makes or breaks this hobby for us. My system sounds great on well recorded CD's. Lousy, compressed, pop CD's sound bad and take the enjoyment out of it. THAT'S what is frustrating. No being able to listen to the music we love because it sounds so damn bad.
Those little nuances in the music and the recording that either annoy us or send us into nirvana are what makes or breaks this hobby for us. My system sounds great on well recorded CD's. Lousy, compressed, pop CD's sound bad and take the enjoyment out of it. THAT'S what is frustrating. No being able to listen to the music we love because it sounds so damn bad.