Haha I was reading your comment and got to the part where you found everything fatiguing and thought “I bet he listens to only tubes”.
Oh yep, further down, exactly right! I just think you don’t enjoy exact digital treble and like everything rolled off
I do think 96kbps is far too low for music on anything better than a Bluetooth speaker and certainly Bluetooth removes soundstage and depth from a track. But I don’t find it fatiguing at all.
Lastly, MQA is a joke format and total embarrassment. Just a way to sell a lossy format and licensing. Gross.
It would be nice if Elon could just add proper support for phones via USB and/or Apple Music.