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matthewb
@matthewb
daily hi-fi 005 McIntosh MCD7005 CD player (1987-88) and MC1000 monoblock amplifier (1992-2000)
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kia
@kia.eth
now that i think about it, when i was a kid, almost everyone had an amplifier in their home what the hell happened
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matthewb
@matthewb
a damn shame if you ask me. not sure there’s any single answer but certainly the rise of portable/bluetooth speakers made the average consumer accustomed to the idea that a sound system was by default “all in one” rather than separate components like source, amplifier, and preamplifier. in reality what happened through this transitional period is that we largely became accustomed to sound reproduction that is low-quality, under-powered, and multi-function rather than dedicated.
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kia
@kia.eth
I think back when there were *real* low quality speakers. which made us conscious and desiring of high quality. the current world is like “good enough” that makes us not realize we’re missing something. good old reversion to the mean
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matthewb
@matthewb
yeah that’s a good way of framing it I think most would be pretty shocked at the delta though, I would argue that the average listener has no idea what their music actually sounds like. average bluetooth speaker can’t reproduce below 100Hz, missing at least two octaves of information. whatever we consider “good enough” now is pretty radically different than even a modest 70s-90s hi-fi system though. just a totally different character, specs aside.
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