acclimated

I just read an interesting post on Culture Making. The gist:

[Stanford music professor Jonathan] Berger then said that he tests his incoming students each year in a similar way.  He has them listen to a variety of recordings which use different formats from MP3 to ones of much higher quality. He described the results with some disappointment and frustration, as a music lover might, that each year the preference for music in MP3 format rises.  In other words, students prefer the quality of that kind of sound over the sound of music of much higher quality.  He said that they seemed to prefer “sizzle sounds” that MP3s bring to music. It is a sound they are familiar with…

We do this with a lot more then just audio quality. We get used to something so we prefer it…our favorite root beer, the so called “web2.0 style”, email as a primary communication tool, money, comfort, browsers, our lifestyle, food….i wonder how many things i stick with just because im acclimated to it, when there is a better alternative out there.