Re: Why indeed...
One of my lines is nature sound recording, and I find I have to be very particular about equipment - some, I have to design and build myself - because the pop music industry has very low standards and apparently practically no understanding of the physics of audio, but is able to put huge price tags on rubbish. You can spend £1K on a microphone stand if you're fool enough, and many microphones in the thousand pound price range are no better than some others at almost a tenth of the price.
On the "consumer" side, a typical DAB radio these days has a 2" speaker, which makes everything sound like Donald Duck, but those tiny ear buds make it even worse, so we're being conditioned to accept massive distortion tarted up by "post processing" to make it tolerable - just not what the music really sounded like when recorded.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
