Interesting distinction, Fean, and I shall ponder upon it fer awhile....

I guess that I am concerned that folks will become so attentive to the gee-whiz special effects of these contraptions that these will assume prominence over the material they are supposed to enhance.

To exemplify this point in my "essay", I describe one's observation of an explosion. As our attention turns to the event, the various sonic characteristics, including tibre, echo, subsonics, etc., likewise unfolds. In real life, we don't appraise the explosion so vividly--unnless we are recording engineers--but apprehend the sonic Gestalt. Similarly, when looking at something, unless we are visual technicians who specialize in such, we generally don't attend to the various textures, and shades of hue, etc., but to the overall image.

I wonder (at the risk of being redundundant), then, if these devices obscure things. I am certain that one become immune to this vividness, much as one's nose soon becomes accoustomed to the smell of noxious substances. To this end, maybe they indeed wind up serving their purposes very well. So, should there be a break-in period (Honeymoon Phase)? Will even these improvements spur the need to upgrade yet again?