Is it weird that I was the guy with the spreadsheet for like two years? I had a whole tab for bonus cards and end of round goals and I would get annoyed if people talked during my counting. Then one night my friend just said "dude, nobody cares who won" and it kind of hit me. Last week we played three games and I could not tell you a single final score, but I remember laughing at someone's raven placement for ten minutes. The games go way faster too, we set up again right away instead of doing math for twenty minutes. My old group would have called this crazy but honestly the scores never made the games more fun, they just made me quieter.

Tuning by sound isn't a party trick, it's how the old timers did it before stands were cheap. I've got a Park stand in the shop but I still pluck and listen when I'm sneaking up on the last bit of wobble, because your ear catches stuff your eyes miss on a spinning rim. The flip phone tone app thing is clever but you don't even need it, you can hear the pitch go up as you add tension and match it across the wheel. Where I'd push back is the "within a millimeter" part, because by ear alone you're usually chasing round and side to side at the same time and it's easy to fool yourself. Learn it if you want, it'll make you faster, just don't toss the stand in the dumpster.