"If it sound good in your car..."

[Blue Jinn]

it'll sound good anywhere."

heard this adage a few time in the 80s. Is it still (if it ever was) true? Then you were talking a cassette usually through a set of coaxial speakers on the rear dash, and maybe a subwoofer. Now you have multi speaker systems playing either CDs, or more likely mp3s or low bitrate Spotify/Sirius.

Assuming mp3 and cassette are roughly equiv on the level of shittiness, does the adage hold true?

 

[DM60]

I have found this to be true, but not because it only sounds good in the car. It sounds good everywhere. Car, big great systems, phone, crappy computer speakers, doesn't matter, it holds up. I was listening to one of my mixes I was playing to my dear old mom, because I wanted her to hear something in my music. I just had my phone, the important parts of the song could be heard, it was a good mix. PS. sounded good on a BAS as well. That is a good mix.

 

[RFR]

I have found this to be true, but not because it only sounds good in the car. It sounds good everywhere. Car, big great systems, phone, crappy computer speakers, doesn't matter, it holds up. I was listening to one of my mixes I was playing to my dear old mom, because I wanted her to hear something in my music. I just had my phone, the important parts of the song could be heard, it was a good mix. PS. sounded good on a BAS as well. That is a good mix.

BAS??

Big ass stereo?