Excellent dead media piece here

He's right. I used to listen to really accurate,

expensive, analog music all the time, on a

pricey stereo. Now I've got a 25-dollar

Chinese CD player and a wonky laptop.

And I listen to pretty much anything I scrape up,

online or elsewhere.

Basically I have the audio surroundings

of a Brazilian favela.

https://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.07/play.html?pg=3

And that news is in WIRED. Welcome to 2005.

Makes one wonder just how crappy recorded music can get