Originally Posted by
Pharos
"I was reading in a book of letters somewhere about how modern actors can't enunciate properly, so it's impossible to make out what they're saying. When was the book written? (totters over to bookcase) ah, yes, 1957."
That seems to suggest that it is the relative shift in dialect which is a problem, that occurring across one's lifetime perhaps, (and is a universal problem like the other post on Hi-Fi fanaticism from the 50s). This means it is in the 'personal software' of the individual that the problem lies.
I also remember well my late great aunt complaining about enunciation in about '67, she born in 1895.
Preferring a higher number of songs at lower quality may well be a reflection of the paucity of real content they have, like a hungry animal searching the rubbish for something vaguely nutritional.
I had great difficulty this morning listening to R4 - the reverend's (from Bronski Beat), programme.