And we’ve got generations of people who think that’s what music is supposed to sound like.

There was an article on Hacker News a little ways back, about this very phenomenon in China. Basically there’s now a generation that has profound nostalgia for the absolutely awful and dirt-cheap playback tech available over a generation ago. To the point that “music doesn’t sound right” on newer tech, and may well be outright un-listenable without crappy hardware in play. By this, I think we can predict that “Bluetooth audio emulation” on newer and better devices, is absolutely going to be a thing eventually.