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Audiophile: "The aluminum cones on these tweeters were precision engineered to give an unbiased audio signal at up to 30,000hz."
Musician: "Some asshole barfed into my amp and now it has this buzz and catches on fire if I leave it plugged in for too long, but I still like how it sounds so we recorded the whole album on it."
Reminds me of Phil Collins' In The Air Tonight. In addition to the hi-fi recording lines, there was basically a phone line designed to allow the sound engineer in the booth and the musician(s) to talk 2-way. Collins liked the effect it gave so they rigged up a way to pipe that audio into the desk. It gives his vocal performance a distant, numb feeling that reinforces the theme of antipathy. Because the equipment was worse.
I'll tell another one: The first time I ever heard The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, it was an mp3 my father downloaded. He managed to find a version that sounded like it was taped off of the radio and then the tape played into the PC capturing at a low bitrate. It's my definitive version of the track; the result sounds foggy and mysterious like it's being played from somewhere in the fog across the lake, it bolsters the legend of the piece.
Can you share that MP3?
Lo-Fi certainly certainly has an appeal all its own.
The reason why GBV's Vampire on Titus sounds the way it does is precisely because they treated sound quality as an afterthought. Makes it unlistenable to some, a diamond in the rough to others. To me, it's the greatest underground album of the '90s. As Jason Hernandez once so brilliantly put it: "[The album] conjures up mazes of crushed basement beer cans. [...] What keeps us coming back are all the solid tunes beneath the grime. This is great, unsettling cartoon-land psychedelic pop from front to back. [...] Several classics lurk in this murk."
Well you still need a decent pair of cans to properly hear the barf on the recording
My headphone's app has a DSP effect for puke and a slider to adjust the chunkiness.