People still say that, and there is a tremendous market for things like tube amps based on the idea that the lower-fidelity stuff 'sounds warmer'. And it does, because you're passing your signal through a filter than adds a small amount of mostly low-frequency distortion which some folks have grown accustomed to.
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Did people say that? I just remember the other side of it, people saying that CDs were lower fidelity than good vinyl recordings.
Of course, now we listen to MP3s.
People still say that, and there is a tremendous market for things like tube amps based on the idea that the lower-fidelity stuff 'sounds warmer'. And it does, because you're passing your signal through a filter than adds a small amount of mostly low-frequency distortion which some folks have grown accustomed to.