I got myself “audiophile” quality over-ear headphones. Haven’t been using over-ear headphones in 20 years. I do spend good money on in-ear headphones and always thought that the sound quality of my headphones is very good (AirPod Pro, Sony WF-1000XM5).
Boy was I wrong. The Sennheiser HDB 630, EVEN THOUGH they are still wireless, sounds insanely good (a dongle allows for high bandwidth and low latency transmission for true Lossless streaming). In direct comparison, my daily driver Sony sound like shit now.
I have been listening to shitty sound quality for 20 years. Huge regrets.
So I went down the “Best 100 Albums of all Time” list on Apple Music. Of course I always knew that music in recent years was kinda shit, but I am SHOCKED by just how much better the music of the 60th, 70th and 80th was compared to today. Real humans playing real instruments, recorded by hard-core sound engineers just beats out today’s same-sounding, overproduced garbage by a mile.