i understand it's purely personal preference but same exact deal with movies.

you spend an entire paycheck on a 8K Sony TV only for the hollywood degen to decide they will deliberately use the lowest quality image capture technology available ...

on the flip side of this Netflix mandates that only approved cameras can be used for their content and their standards are pretty high - the MINIMUM quality for Netflix is about 10 times higher than what "Black Swan" was shot in ... i disagree with Netflix approach as well.

i don't want every movie to have exactly the same look which is what Netflix wants. but i also don't want movies getting so "creative" with the look that you can't see anything at all ( 28 days later ).

likewise each artist should have their own sound, which, never the less, shouldn't sound like AM radio IMO.