Have we reached rock bottom?

[amey01]

As if MP3s weren't enough, has anyone else noticed the increasing trend of young teensomethings carrying mobile 'phones around to "listen" to music?

At first I think they've got some w*nky ringtone, but then I realise they're actually listening to that audio abomination! Sort of today's equivalent to the ghetto blaster on the shoulder of the '70s.

 

[User211]

Do you mean listening through the phone's speaker?

My admittedly long in the tooth Sony W950i sounds OK through decent headphones...:music:

 

[tonepub]

my iPhone has uncompressed music on it, sounds pretty good, especially through a Wadia iDock!

 

[amey01]

Do you mean listening through the phone's speaker?

My admittedly long in the tooth Sony W950i sounds OK through decent headphones...:music:

NO - I mean listening through the speaker!!!

 

[Rich]

Amey,

What's old is new again. Remember the little transistor radio? Pretty poor sound but they were pretty darn popular with kids in the fifties. It isn't that we have hit rock-bottom. It is just that different people have different sound quality requirements at different times in their lives. I listened to some speakers as a kid that would make you laugh out loud. I built them myself out of spare parts and they were abominable. But I was proud of them and enjoyed them. Ultimate quality is not everyone's goal, and is certainly not a teenager's goal.

 

[amey01]

Amey,

What's old is new again. Remember the little transistor radio? Pretty poor sound but they were pretty darn popular with kids in the fifties. It isn't that we have hit rock-bottom. It is just that different people have different sound quality requirements at different times in their lives. I listened to some speakers as a kid that would make you laugh out loud. I built them myself out of spare parts and they were abominable. But I was proud of them and enjoyed them. Ultimate quality is not everyone's goal, and is certainly not a teenager's goal.

I know this more than anyone - it's just that there is a line where noise ceases to be music. That is, the point where even the most clueless person wouldn't recognise a noise as music.....And I draw that line at a 0.5cm mobile phone "speaker" with a frequency response of 2,300Hz - 2,700Hz!