I recently saw this on the internet... At some obscene hour in the morning when I couldn't sleep. Google's algorithm has got me entirely predictable by the looks of it. 

This small article: HERE, got me thinking. It doesn't elaborate much on each of the points, and I figured I could flesh it out a little. Being in Hi-Fi sales at Apollo for what seems like a decade at this point gives me insight into each of these points.

1. You know all new music sucks

This is too broad. And it comes down to personal taste. I personally don't like how much music is compressed, and I am not a fan of most stuff to hit the charts. I've heard tracks with fake distorted bass to make bass notes audible on phone speakers, and there are certain vocal techniques that are used in a lot of Hip-Hop/Pop tracks that drive me mad. BUT... There are a handful of songs out there that I find catchy as hell. There's garbage recordings and absolute gems regardless of when the tracks were recorded.

The fact of the matter is that a lot of popular music is made to make money. And there's countless techniques on how to make a track grab peoples attention and get people to listen to it as much as possible as often as possible (even if it seems to vanish from the public eye in 6 months, or a year or whatever). 

A lot of people may associate the Loudness wars with when music started to decline. 

2. You think you know what a room sounds like from a photo

This is a bit of a mixed bag. I know an anechoic chamber will sound utterly dead. A modern, open plan living room with hard floors and floor to ceiling glass windows are going to echo a lot, and sound "brighter". That be