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To be fair the consumer audio stack is crap in the average home. I bet a CRT TV would be a big improvement in audio quality compared to most flat screens on the market.

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But shouldn't the product be created for the typical end user and not the 1% of cinemaphiles with a blessed setup?

A pretty common complaint is that developers only test things on their latest generation i9, with unlimited ram, and 8k displays.

What is the typical end user? Is it you with your TV? Me with mine? My neighbor with their soundbar I can hear through the walls? The guy on the train with his airpods? There is no standard, its all over the place. You might as well engineer so it sounds good when people actually care enough to string together some half decent components than to take a shot in the dark at building around some audio spec that doesn't exist.

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