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Originally Posted by sclitheroe
They don't care because it's good enough, and the best its ever been. Today's audio, even with the "crappy" headphones and lossy music, is light years ahead of cassette, 8 track, most home turntable gear, etc. The amps and tuners have lower distortion, the digital gear has better signal to noise ratios, speakers are far beyond where they used to be in terms of performance, sensitivity, frequency response, etc.
It's fine to be an audiophile, but at least recognize that you're sitting at the top 1% or less of music listeners, and that the gear that the common person has today is far superior to anything that's come before it - there's absolutely no way the average music listener is experiencing the equivalent of AM radio.
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Have you heard some of the crap people download?
If everything you get is off itunes it won't make too much of a difference unless you are an audiophile.
Anything off a torrent site is totally unaccounted for. It could be a rip of a rip of a rip.
In fact, I'm not sure why you brought up home audio equipment at all. I only mentioned crappy internet rips and cheap $10 Radio Shack headphones. It amazes me that people can listen to that muffled garbage and not care. And why are you comparing it to technology from 30-50 years ago? Isn't this a thread about CDs?