I can sum this article up as "I can listen to an album with a feature turned off, and listen to it again with the feature turned on, and it will sound different".
That... Doesn't feel like a problem to me? First music I remember "owning" as a kid was mix tapes I listened to on a portable radio. Later I grew up listening to crappy MP3 rips of albums on tinny earbuds. I got better headphones. Blasted the same albums on vinyl on big speakers. Listened to stuff compressed as hell over FM radio. Listened to albums in my car with an aftermarket subwoofer. Listened to FLAC rips of remastered albums. And yeah, a few Atmos albums on Tidal recently.
I can have listened to like 10 different iterations on the same one album and just enjoyed hearing the differences and the nuances of each medium or production version / remaster. You listen obsessively to one variant of an album enough to know every intimate detail, every imperceptible flaw in the recording, it becomes very familiar and then hearing new sounds in new variants is novel.
Edit: to give a concrete example: Pink Floyd albums. Listening to dark side of the moon, I equally have enjoyed the different warbly qualities of gradually degrading tape and vinyl, the tiny hiccups of slightly scratched CD, the squishy high frequencies of old MP3 rips, and just how clear everything sounds in hi-fi formats, and the atmos version. And like, listening to it over different generations of speakers and headphones etc. It's not an evolution or a progression; it's just hearing stuff different.
That... Doesn't feel like a problem to me? First music I remember "owning" as a kid was mix tapes I listened to on a portable radio. Later I grew up listening to crappy MP3 rips of albums on tinny earbuds. I got better headphones. Blasted the same albums on vinyl on big speakers. Listened to stuff compressed as hell over FM radio. Listened to albums in my car with an aftermarket subwoofer. Listened to FLAC rips of remastered albums. And yeah, a few Atmos albums on Tidal recently.
I can have listened to like 10 different iterations on the same one album and just enjoyed hearing the differences and the nuances of each medium or production version / remaster. You listen obsessively to one variant of an album enough to know every intimate detail, every imperceptible flaw in the recording, it becomes very familiar and then hearing new sounds in new variants is novel.
Edit: to give a concrete example: Pink Floyd albums. Listening to dark side of the moon, I equally have enjoyed the different warbly qualities of gradually degrading tape and vinyl, the tiny hiccups of slightly scratched CD, the squishy high frequencies of old MP3 rips, and just how clear everything sounds in hi-fi formats, and the atmos version. And like, listening to it over different generations of speakers and headphones etc. It's not an evolution or a progression; it's just hearing stuff different.