My abiding interest in hi-fi and audio technology has always been driven by a love of music. Over the years, a still-growing collection of CDs gradually displaced what was once an outsized collection of LPs - a heavyweight library that at its peak wrapped around three sides of a large room. The acquisition of discs has slowed as other sources have become more convenient, but in the process of intermittently transferring favourite recordings to a hard drive, I've been astounded by how many albums I have bought for only one or two great tracks. A dismaying portion of my music collection consists of one-hit wonders -both the widely recognised commercial variety, and personal favourites whose musical appeal so outdistances everything else on the album containing it as to render it irrelevant.
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