>Somewhere in a fiction novel I read about a music industry executive who would listen to new material on a crappy little record player, not on super fancy stud

>Somewhere in a fiction novel I read about a music industry executive who would listen to new material on a crappy little record player, not on super fancy studio monitor equipment. Because that's what it had to sound good on. Marissa Mayer, while at Google, kept using dialup at home so she would experience what someone without broadband sees.