Rarely do we consider downgrading our system.
We've worked so hard to get our systems to sing that lowering their quality to better accommodate poor recordings is an obvious major step backwards.
And yet people seem to be ok with systems that have such low resolution as to never point an accusing sonic finger at the hardness or blare we so often find in lousy recordings.
Like the illogic of refusing to clean a smudged lens because its sharpness would point out everything wrong with the image, our refusal to downgrade can easily be helpful in the opposite vein—reassuring us it's ok to step out into the unknown of the upgrade.
Upgrading our systems can be challenging because we risk failure and misdirection. What if we chose poorly?
On the other hand, if we constantly are afraid of change we get stuck in place.
Forward movement is what keeps us active, alive, and healthy.
