In a recent interview with The Verge, legendary musician Neil Young came out against the MacBook Pro, calling the new 16-inch model “a piece of crap” and “Fisher-Price” quality. That’s definitely a take, but it left me wondering, has Neil Young ever heard any other laptop speakers? I mean, as a general rule of thumb, laptop speakers aren’t regarded by anyone as being the pinnacle of sound quality. In this interview, however, Neil Young uses this as a reason why folks shouldn’t be creating music on a MacBook Pro, that the loss in fidelity is a “problem.” It’s the same energy that he presented when he said he was “saving music” with the Pono player way back in 2012.When Young goes as far to say that Steve Jobs didn’t care about quality, but rather just consumerism, that’s a pretty tame take overall. I don’t have an issue with that, and even agree. However, when that take is behind an incredibly elitist approach to both the consumption and creation of music, there’s a lot to unpack. Laptop speakers are bad, actuallyI have a confession to make: when I’m reviewing a laptop, the speakers are lowkey one of the most important features to my… Read full this story
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