The loud home hi-fi system has mostly gone the way of the dodo. Adults will sit and watch a sophisticated program for an hour. I’m not sure a significant % will ever go back to doing that with music. Seems to me now, most folks look at music as something they listen to while they are also doing something else, driving, jogging, making supper. It’s just background noise, acceptable to be experienced through computer speakers while surfing the internet or earbuds or whatever you call them. So they produce and mix most popular songs with that in mind. It’s why they sound really bad on good systems.
I think that’s part of the reason why so many are going with vinyl. Little shops that sell vinyl, the process of readying a record, all these little routines make listening to tunes special and out of the norm. It takes time. Also the likely hood of listening through a crappy system is self limiting—why go to all this trouble when you actually are going to hear it through tiny tin cans or something.
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