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I have noticed the difference with the "loudness wars". When CDs first came out some of them were not very loud but had the full range of the music, same on radio, some songs were louder than others, and musicians wanted their songs loud so they could be heard 'better' than other musician's songs. So we end up with crappy quality sound recordings. Rush Vapor Trails was released both ways, and with crappy little ear buds the 'loud' version is probably fine, some reviewers even preferred that version, but on good audio equipment the dynamic version sounds better. I like Skillet, but their Rise album is so distorted from loudness I can barely listen to it. I think Apple, for all their supposed quality, has gotten people used to listening to lousy sounding music on ear buds, and some people may even prefer it at this point. So I expect Apple would hardly think twice about getting rid of the 3.5 plug.
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