Looking at the development of NMR instrumentation and practice over the last seven decades, the basic HNMR experiment is broadly affected by a habit that might appear to be a minor detail, but could represent a significant (conceptual) impediment to high-resolution(!) NMR spectroscopy: the near-ubiquitous routine application of line broadening via exponential multiplication prior to FT. Representing the typical default setting in the software of most NMR spectrometers, it has not changed since the first FFT instrument and consists of exponential multiplication (EM) of the FID (time domain NMR spectrum, raw data) with a 0.2 to 0.3 Hz (sometimes more) line broadening (LB) factor applied. This long-term habit is actually counter to the development of modern spectrometer hardware and software capability and artificially serves to degrade resultant performance.