I don't think this is always the case. My old T460p had crappy speakers that were facing downwards (leveraging flat surfaces). My newer T14 G1 and X1C G9 have g

I don't think this is always the case. My old T460p had crappy speakers that were facing downwards (leveraging flat surfaces). My newer T14 G1 and X1C G9 have great speakers. I usually have them at ~55%, never more than 75%. In the end, these are just laptop speakers. I wouldn't listen to music on them anyway.