We have over sixty years of know-how when it comes to mixing for traditional hi-fi home stereo setups, but mixing for playback on laptops, smartphones, and other relatively lo-fi (or at least limited-fi) playback devices requires special considerations. Obviously, these portable, inexpensive playback devices trade convenience for sonics and today’s portable systems sound only remotely as good as the aforementioned home hi-fi systems. Lossy mp3 audio became the new norm, as did Sonos systems, our ever-present smartphone and laptop speakers, and all kinds of convenient and inexpensive consumer-grade Bluetooth® playback devices. Shortly after the turn of the millennium, iPods and earbuds became ubiquitous. Clean-sounding receivers or amplifiers and highly-spec’d speakers with decent-sized woofers for your home system was the gold standard. Back in my day, we listened to records and eventually cassettes and CDs on our home hi-fi stereo systems. Music listening habits and technologies have changed dramatically over the decades. Apple’s iPod is as foreign to my ten-year-old neighbor as my grandfather’s Victrola was to me.
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