I noticed that I used to enjoy music more on cassette, presumably because my brain was filling in what it wanted to hear because there was so little real detail there.
That didn't change until I ripped all of my CDs to disk - which makes a bit-perfect copy of the CD master - and started playing them through decent converters.
Now I wonder how I ever put up with vinyl or tape.
I don't find the processed sound tiring - it's been processed for a while now, and I more or less grew up with it.
But it is hard to find really good engineering now, and many (but not all) recent albums seem to sound wretchedly bad - thin, grainy, heavy-handed - compared to some of classics from the 70s, which also had plenty of fake reverb and echo, but managed to hold it together more satisfyingly.
The engineer at my favourite studio in Stockholm in the Seventies modded the Dolby A's there - and Dolby bought his mods. He later became house engineer for Abba - and whatever you think of the music, it's great engineering. You can't be me, I'm taken
