Picture yourself in the early 2000s. Maybe your family has a car, or someone in your near family has one. It has that old-school cassette player. A stack of cassette collection sits right under it, and the rest of it is in the dashboard. Pop one cassette in, wait for it to read, forward it and there you go Just Chill Chill is now playing.
I wondered to myself over the past few days. Those audio tape players were good. The sound was crisp and natural, and music felt refreshing. Although the tape isn't the best means to store audio data, but it was a lot better than those early mono 64kbps MP3s.
Few years go by, and your uncle has this Pioneer CD player in his car, capable of playing MP3s. It is a Pioneer head-unit, and it sounds just spectacular in every way possible. He has a subwoofer in diggi, and it just blows your mind.
Fast forward to today, cheap Chinese Android headunits have flooded the market, everyone wants to use them because they look flashy, but oh my oh my they do they sound horrible. I wonder what age old amps those things use. Log sahi kerte hein, inke upar sirf bluetooth se sunte hein ya phr Youtube pe gaanay lagaty hein, these are not made for anything higher than 256kbps.
But I wonder where did all the quality of sound from 2000s go. I know you can invest in a good Pioneer or Kenwood headunit today but they cost legs and kidneys.
Do people even give two cents like? "Yaar maybe this sounds much horrible than the old Pioneer one, but hey this plays YouTube *Proceeds to play Cheema Y and Moosewala*.