3 Reasons Why High-Fidelity Consumer Audio is Making a Comeback
As a lifelong audiophile, I’ve heard the sound quality in consumer audio products steadily decline. We went from records, to CDs, and then to MP3s–all the while compressing audio files into smaller and smaller formats that increase device-carrying capacity, but at the very real expense of audio fidelity. Unfortunately, low-fidelity (Lo-fi) audio has become so prevalent in mainstream culture–from mobile phones to online videos–that most people are quite accustomed to compressed audio, and have no idea what the audio is actually supposed to sound like, and how wonderful it really is. Living in a Lo-fi world is hard for us audio lovers, but there’s light at the end of this…