Because not everybody is rich.
Like, you don't have to spend lots of money. Just some.
Like, instead of spending $30 on a "remastered" version of Thriller, that doesn't sound any better (actually sounds worse), you'd be better off spending $30 on some new speaker cable or something. That way,
all your music will sound better.
Also a lot of people live in apartments where you can't play music really loud anyway
I didn't say anything about louder. Just better. Aim for good quality sound at low volume.
There's also the case that most people do not care about sound or video quality. DVD still outsells Blu-ray & 4K discs put together. 4K is pretty niche, lol.
Indeed. That's the really sad part. People don't seem to care.
Not all albums are mastered the same either, some won't sound that good no matter what you play it on.
But MJ albums do sound great. It's a big disrespect to listen to MJ on a phone.
Another reason is that if a person lives in a high crime area, buying something that costs a lot of money means that it is likely to get stolen and they've wasted their money.
Tell me about it. I had an Arcam Alpha CD player stolen one time.
But either way, if somebody loves music, it's a shame when they can barely hear the details in the music they love.
Why clamour for more leaked/unreleased vocals of new songs, when there are vocals on Thriller that have been there all along, that you've never heard?