Having music available for when you’re on the move isn’t so much a luxury as it is a necessity. Can you imagine having to endure that bus ride / train journey / flight (or all three) without a pocketful of music to keep you entertained and sane? Doesn’t bear thinking about, does it?
But if you take sound quality seriously – and really, who doesn’t? – then you’ll know that relying on your smartphone to do the business is a suboptimal solution. It’s already got plenty to deal with, and more often than not all the stuff that’s crucial to sound quality (the digital-to-analogue conversion circuitry, the wireless connectivity, the implementation of codec compatibility, you name it) is a bit of an afterthought.
