QUALITY

I'm... kinda wondering whether or not you, the music listeners of the present, care about audio quality
Because right now we live in an age of convenience, where a lot of the ways people consume their music isn't exactly of, you know, this high audio quality standard
Really bad MP3 downloads all over the internet, YouTube streams, listening to the music on the very small, cheap earbuds or maybe like your laptop speakers which don't exactly, you know, translate the music to you in the most accurate way possible
And, of course, there are loads of artists out there, in numerous genres, recording their albums in a very low-fidelity way
S-s-s-s-sounds maybe distorted, modulated, muddy...
So with all these things kind of impending upon the audio quality of the music that you listen to, but still not really seeing a drop-off in the amount of people listening to music these days, does audio quality really matter to the average person anymore?
There's certainly some trends pointing toward people caring about the audio quality of the stuff that they're listening to, artists uploading their music onto YouTube in a 720p video so that you get better quality audio from the YouTube stream, sites like Spotify that allow people to stream music for free while either them advertisements or sort of taking those advertisements away when they subscribe, they're offering better audio quality, and of course, there has been the resurgence of people buying vinyl again
And a lot of people now are starting to favour FLAC, which is another way to download and sort of store your music on your computer digitally, like an MP3, but you're getting higher quality audio without it taking up as much space on your hard drive
And of course, there are modern music recording styles that are very prominent in certain styles of metal, and mainstream pop music and hip-hop music that sound very clean- ea- ean- ea- ea- ean- ea- -ea- ean