Perfection through low resolution?

So I followed this link to a YouTube video of Wilhelm Furtwangler rehearsing part of Brahms' 4th Symphony. The sound quality is awful. The high frequencies and the low frequencies are both cut off. There's hiss. There are even a few instants where the sound drops out entirely. But it's probably the best Brahms 4 I've ever heard.... and then it occurred to me that maybe those are related. Pointillist paintings are all about disjoint dots blending together in the mind; maybe a recording like this one is sweetened in my head, expressly because I can't hear everything in fine detail -- the outlines are there discernably enough, but there's no way to hear things precisely including defects. So my mind fills in whats missing, and of course it does so without unwanted mistakes. The result is, it sounds better explicitly because it's not giving me everything; the trickier-to-get-right details are created in my brain, and created right.

Anyway, go take a look and a listen. If for no other reason than Wilhelm Furtwangler conducts like a maniacal drunken monkey. Skip ahead to about 1:30 in, when the transition from slow tempo to fast happens. (Especially around 3:05!)