And then I became insufferable

My digital journey started where most people's does, with an Apple TV, and it sounded fine to me. Then my dealer convinced me to buy the Eversolo A6 Master Edition, around $1,000 for a streamer and DAC. And then I became insufferable.

Friends would come over and leave with a test. Apple TV against the Eversolo, listen to this, guess which is which. Once you hear it, I told them, you cannot unhear it. I was that guy.

The irony is that I had been the Apple TV listener myself, and not long before. Apple Music through the Apple TV, and before that CDs and Blu-rays through a PlayStation 3, with files from hard drives played through the same console. I loved music on all of it, and nobody forced me into a blind test.

The difference was real, and I still hear it. What I forgot is that my friends had come for the music and the company, not for my discovery. A new convert always wants a witness, and I made every guest one.

So this is my apology to everyone who sat through those tests. The Eversolo was better; I was worse.