Missing the forest for the trees

Weeding out the junk in my LP collection. Cutting back from the 4,500 I had to 3000 LPs. Positive experience so far. finished the Jazz, Listened to all the stuff I did not remember, got rid of all the junk and impossible to listen to (think later Archie Shepp tootling atonally for the whole LP...), kept the stuff. I like...  am almost finished doing the same with the Rock. Classical is a bit harder.. (Like I listened to all EIGHT performances of Scheherazade I owned.. Kept 4 dumped 4. One item down, 1000 to go.                      
So basically changing from collecting for collecting sake. To playing listening to what I like. Gettin' OLD and have no need for an endless mountain of possible stuff to listen to. (3,000 should be plenty)

Likewise, Liz---Eric.

Thoughtful Essay: 'Objectivity and the Abstract Truth' by Allan Moulton // The Absolute Sound


Here is a snippet...

"The scientific method is a purposeful and sometimes necessary disentanglement of equipment and sounds from listening’s full context. But at the end of the day, a double-blind test or full set of measurements reveals a lesser form of the truth, not a greater one. The truth or essence of the equipment we listen to is not contained in them or in the capabilities they have or in the opinions we hold. Like it or not, the full truth is that we’re entangled in complex and wonderful ways with our world."

http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/objectivity-and-the-abstract-truth/