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Yeah V8, we even give of ourselves in the face of being treated like apes and with no thanks. MG mistook a friendly welcoming gesture I made when he first joined as some sort of a dig at him (went over my head and left me speechless). I can only hope he knows by now that I mean no harm (ever!), and only do my best to be of service, as so many here do.
At this point I'm seriously stoked that he's happy he's managed to get to the bottom of it. As you say, it's a subtle thing, but like so many things of this nature, time is the ingredient that exposes "flaws". I could've given many more examples of this phenomenon in that post - another obvious one being early CD pressings (late '80s) and low-quality MP3's. I remember when CD's first hit the market that before too long folks noticed that the extended LP-listening sessions they enjoyed after returning home from work became severely-truncated. Little wonder - the "harsh", "unnatural" numbers generated in those days in the upper frequencies by CD's and indeed the players' D/A convertors would hardly have been "elegant" numerical fodder for the brain.