Stereo Expand Addiction, for example

I can't listen to music on my smart phone using Bluetooth earphones for more than a few seconds before I feel the need to turn the stereo expand feature up to about 70%-80%.

Is it only me?

Does anyone else have any relatively obscure addictions to report?

@fmf said
I can't listen to music on my smart phone using Bluetooth earphones for more than a few seconds before I feel the need to turn the stereo expand feature up to about 70%-80%.

Is it only me?

Does anyone else have any relatively obscure addictions to report?

I can't listen to anything on my smartphone except the spoken voice. Even the notifications noises drive me crazy.

@Kewpie

I second that. But the newer phones are a lot better I found out. I recently traded in my old Galaxy 7 for a galaxy 20 and there was clear technology improvements like the audio WITHOUT earbuds is a LOT better and the screen res a LOT better also.
I think audio coming out of cell phones are all MP3 level so not the best in the first place.

@sonhouse said
I think audio coming out of cell phones are all MP3 level so not the best in the first place.

Who on Earth has ever said to you that mp3s coming out of a smartphone is "the best" audio? You took this bizarre claim seriously enough to repeat it - and shoot it down - here on a message board? Did whoever it was claim it was better than WAV @ 32 bit and 192kHz sample rate, through a pair of Sony WH-1000xM4s, for example?

@kewpie said
I can't listen to anything on my smartphone except the spoken voice. Even the notifications noises drive me crazy.

I listen mostly to podcasts through the phone's speaker but I have about 300 albums loaded up too so that I can have a listen when I am not at my computer.

@fmf said
I can't listen to music on my smart phone using Bluetooth earphones for more than a few seconds before I feel the need to turn the stereo expand feature up to about 70%-80%.

Is it only me?

Does anyone else have any relatively obscure addictions to report?

I grew up when Mono was standard... I still can listen to mono without any second thought.

@FMF

circa 1974
i attended a molly hatchet/black oak arkansas concert somewhere in virginia
the concert security (lol) allowed me to climb onstage and sit right in one of the giant speakers at the edge of the stage

my ears
my lovely ears

what a great concert