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So this is one of the posts in which I am going to argue that when I was a teenager things were better, and you are going to think that I am one of those guys who thinks that things were always better in the past. \u00a0A disgruntled modernist of sorts. But no, that is not the case. \u00a0I can’t think of anything that was better 30 yrs ago than now, except one thing, music quality.<\/p>\n

When I was a teen, I was a fan of HiFi<\/a> music. \u00a0I used to build my own speakers, try to get the best turntable I could find, and the best amplifier. \u00a0Already playing cassette tapes was consider a “no no” as the quality would deteriorate considerably compared to vinyl records. I did like CDs though, as they seem to reach the whole sound range.<\/p>\n

Now fast forward to 2010. My children play music off their laptops, their Macs. The speakers are terrible. Sound awful. And even myself I buy a Sonos<\/a>, and the quality is acceptable, but not great. So what do I do? I still buy myself amazing speakers and amplifiers and whatever I have that produces music, I send through those. And I don’t even like the sound of Home Theaters except if you are watching movies. So we have one, but in the movie at home<\/em> part of the house. Home Theaters invariably have bad speakers. So our solution for the living room and dining room is to have great old fashion Denon<\/a>, Pioneer and\u00a0Marantz<\/a>, amplifiers connected to Yamaha speakers. It is not that the equipment is old. It’s the technology that is old. Even the Sonos I don’t use to amplify the sound, nor do I use the Sonos speakers that come with the unit. I just a use a Sonos box to convert Spotify, Last.fm and even my own music library, from an input that comes over ethernet, into an audio output that goes into the Denon amplifier and the Yamaha speakers. \u00a0Something that soon amplifiers will do by themselves using AirPlay.<\/p>\n

So in the end I walk around my home with an iPhone<\/a> or HTC Nexus One<\/a> (with Andronos installed) and I can play music, great quality music. And now I have both, the quality of the 80’s with the variety, accessibility and ease of use that we have 30 years later. My favorite band at the moment is The XX<\/a>. My favorite song is Crystalised.<\/p>\n

PS:\u00a0 I am studying the app that was made for streaming music with a Fonera,<\/p>\n

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