That’s a really interesting stat. It’s like if you are used to drinking expensive wine, you can’t go back to the cheap stuff, but if you only ever had the cheap stuff, then you’re ok with drinking it and the expensive wine doesn’t seem to be that much better.
What’s interesting is while we have make huge strides in accessibility to music, it’s come at the expense of quality. Even with nice headphones, you’re still not getting everything you can from a MP3 file.
And of course it goes beyond headphones. Today we pop the ipod into an ipod dock with a single speaker that sounds pretty good. But I love going over to my parents house and playing records on his jumbo 7pc speakers that go through an amp and a massive woofer that I don’t think has ever been turned up over 3. So much better.