[wodenokoto]

As a teenager I did odd jobs at a small company that produced studio equipment (rack mounted reverbs and that kind of stuff) and was told this was one of the main features of mastering a CD - ensuring it sounded good on shitty kitchen radios and large stadium sound-systems.

I was told, somewhere, some guy was blasting himself with a giant speaker array tweaking the levels on Hit Me Baby One More Time, before it could be printed to masters. A mental scene that has lived rent free in my mind for decades.

It still blows my mind that consumer grade CDs and LPs were the source for radio broadcasts and such.