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Audio quality has gotten a lot better over time as speaker and player technology improved, so now cheap mainstream stuff could be equal to high end back then.
by netr0ute 4y ago
Audio quality has gotten a lot better over time as speaker and player technology improved, so now cheap mainstream stuff could be equal to high end back then.
- layer8 4y agoNot quite, the weakest link are the speakers (and room acoustics), and cheap speakers — which the large majority of “mainstream” speakers are — still suck today as they did in the 90s.
- eropple 4y agoA lot of mainstream speakers are pretty bad, but I tend to think that once you get above a couple watts the quality-for-money tatto ratio goes up quite a bit.
- netr0ute 4y ago> and room acoustics Interestingly, a study suggests that room acoustics don't negatively affect the sound of good speakers, and what that means is that for listening, acoustics don't matter as much as they do for recording.
- seb1204 4y agoThat is likely true for the transmission of the audio signal. Regarding the music itself I have heard complaints to the contrary. Loudness war/race and reduced dynamics are keywords I recall here. To blame was the way the audio was mixed before release. I'm not an audiophile though