Yes, it's strange. I know that years in noisy aircraft has taken its toll, but strangely I still seem to be able to enjoy a Steinway or Yamaha piano more than a cheaper one. Some of the high notes sound a bit ‘wooden' sometimes, and rattle around with my 6,000 cycle tinnitus, but if one string is slightly out of tune it will drive me skatty. My CAA readouts by rights should have made me unable to hear even the first harmonics of the high end but somehow the colour is still there.
So, given that I don't want more than 10 pieces loaded at a time, I can go for the best quality...?? Mmmm, having said this, the choice of quality was not available to me on the progs I tried. I'm about to try the links, so maybe they will have the option. It could be that my son was referring to copying from CDs, I'll just have to get climbing on the learning curve.
When thinking about the neuro-psychology
of one's hearing, I was impressed by my rejection of some of Stan Kenton's later pieces that I considered downloading yesterday. Same band mostly and the same music, but it just wasn't right...then I found a 1953 disc that I recognised by its cover. Every inflection of every note seemed perfect, all matching up to some deeply stored data---filed away long before I got hooked on classical piano. I can't have heard it for at least thirty years. Maybe all I need is a memory jogger.