I go all he way back to when music came over the AM radio, clipped, attenuated, stomped, squashed, and premasticated.
The "stereo" of my day wasn't stereo (yet) and we called it Hi-Fi (for high fidelity) and we built our own amps or assembled Heathkits.
So now (according to Steve Guttenberg) we are back to stomped and pre-chewed, except around LAU where we all still roll our own one way or another.