Neil Young Says the MacBook Pro Has ‘Fisher-Price’ Audio Quality

I wonder what Neil Young thinks about Raspberry Pi, since you can get some really good DAC hats for it, and they're super cheap (especially compared to an Apple laptop or his own products). How does a Raspberry Pi Zero with PHAT DAC or similar compare to his product?

There are a lot of great USB input/output devices that don't have the limitations he's talking about. Most professionals don't use built-in consumer-grade audio hardware for anything other than system beeps and whatnot. He has a product to sell, which is probably why he omits that in his anti-Apple tirades. Just a guess, but this isn't the first time he was harping on that subject.

> The older technology used to give you a reflection of it so that you could still feel it. Today, it’s reconstituted. It’s poorly sampled. It’s garbage that has less bits to save people memory, which is not even relevant anymore.

I noticed this last night when scanning photos I inherited: in the last 20 years or, ID photo prints became so cheap and fugly, they are JUST enough for a person to be identified, whereas ID photos that are older have an astonishing amount of detail in the print (and an absence of compression artifacts), that is not necessary to recognize the person, but makes them seem much more plastic and real, for lack of a better way to describe it.