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I have two teenage daughters. One of them has two of her friends with her in the family room.
Now, our family room was designed by me and contains a 7.1 THX certified surround-sound system with a high-end Yamaha receiver that is capable of playing music so loudly at unity gain that you'd probably call the cops from your house if they used it. But it would sound GOOD!
So, what are they doing? They're clustered together on the couch listening to snippets of music (they never seem to listen to more than 20 seconds of any single song) via Spotify (compressed) using the second smallest (Mac laptop) speakers in the house. At least they're not listening on their phones. This time. Hell, she has a bluetooth speaker that sounds WAY better than the laptop but that's upstairs.
These kids *love* music, but they could not care less about the quality of the sound. One of them is an accomplished violinist, so I don't mean "love music" like a typical teen. These kids love music. Why don't they love sound quality? I don't get it.
Now, our family room was designed by me and contains a 7.1 THX certified surround-sound system with a high-end Yamaha receiver that is capable of playing music so loudly at unity gain that you'd probably call the cops from your house if they used it. But it would sound GOOD!
So, what are they doing? They're clustered together on the couch listening to snippets of music (they never seem to listen to more than 20 seconds of any single song) via Spotify (compressed) using the second smallest (Mac laptop) speakers in the house. At least they're not listening on their phones. This time. Hell, she has a bluetooth speaker that sounds WAY better than the laptop but that's upstairs.
These kids *love* music, but they could not care less about the quality of the sound. One of them is an accomplished violinist, so I don't mean "love music" like a typical teen. These kids love music. Why don't they love sound quality? I don't get it.