2021: 1TB SD cards available for portable audio at any quality level you could desire. Arbitary quality DACs available at almost any price point. Powered speakers with matched internal amplification. Subwoofers.
Anyone who thinks the 1970s is the golden age of audio isn't paying attention.
[ EDIT: also, huge shout out to Bandcamp, where I can sit at home in the comfort of whatever listening system I want (typically for me a set of Genelec studio monitors), peruse vast quantities of music for free (typically listening to whole albums several times before I buy), and then finally choosing anything from MP3 to FLAC as the download format. I mean, my 70s self would not have believed this if I had described it to them. ]
Anyone who thinks the 1970s is the golden age of audio isn't paying attention.
[ EDIT: also, huge shout out to Bandcamp, where I can sit at home in the comfort of whatever listening system I want (typically for me a set of Genelec studio monitors), peruse vast quantities of music for free (typically listening to whole albums several times before I buy), and then finally choosing anything from MP3 to FLAC as the download format. I mean, my 70s self would not have believed this if I had described it to them. ]