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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Add in ruined music to that. Shitty speakers, super lossy codecs to preserve cellular bandwidth, even shittier Bluetooth compression, listening to music on a phone is convenient but it sounds like shit. And we've got generations of people who think that's what music is supposed to sound like.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Unless you have a Sony phone or an LG V series phone. The DACs on those are incredible (for phones at least)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

And we’ve got generations of people who think that’s what music is supposed to sound like.

There was an article on Hacker News a little ways back, about this very phenomenon in China. Basically there's now a generation that has profound nostalgia for the absolutely awful and dirt-cheap playback tech available over a 30 years ago. To the point that "music doesn't sound right" on newer tech, and may well be outright un-listenable without crappy hardware in play. By this, I think we can predict that "Bluetooth audio emulation" on newer and better devices, is absolutely going to be a thing eventually.