Realistically, a standard listener can't hear much of a difference above 192 kb/s, but there always some things that make it more obvious. Listening to classical piano I end up noticing things more. I listen with very nice headphones and it will pick up tiny encoding errors that annoy me, but it's also just nice to know that I have pure quality. I'm able to pick everything out, I can manipulate the files if I want and have everything there. And like 90% of the time, it's not important. And yet....

What even more frustrating about the O's is the fact that, by all metrics, we should have been so much better than last year. A resurgent Crush Davis, a full season, much improved Manny Machado, the return of Wieters, Hardy's injuries solved, Caleb Jospeh coming into his own, and a fleet of Duquette style "unrefined diamonds" that, even in a few didn't work out, one would pan out surely and stick well. But it didn't. Wieters sucked, Hardy's still hurt and powerless, Steve Pearce was mostly hurt or bewilderingly benched, and none of our pickups worked. The entirety of our rotation, save Chen, imploded so hard with absolutely no reason. The new hitting coach worked great for a month, and has led to shit since. It's completely inexplicable. And now the fans on our subreddit are calling for Duquette's head as if he's the worst GM ever because he didn't pull another Nelson Cruz and Steve Pearce outta thin air. And now we have to deal with nine (!!!) free agents. Ugh.

The only good news is my boy Kevin Gausman is actually really developing well. He's been solid, filthy, and he's finding that third pitch. This is more amazing given that we haven't developed a good pitcher in... almost thirty years. And that Caleb Joseph's under team control until 2021. Love that guy.