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