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Jacques Chailley in 1961 (i.e., pre-Walkman, pre-iPod):

The fantastic success of the L.P. record, which has found its way into every home, is perhaps the most important single event in the history of twentieth-century music. Combined with the no less spectacular diffusion of radio and television, it has resulted in "canned music" having become the essential musical nourishment of our generation. ... Thanks to "canned music" we hear infinitely more music than ever before and, if we desire it, of infinitely better quality. But do we listen to it as well as we used to? The best tinned products can never take the place of a sauce carefully prepared and left to simmer slowly over the fire. Is not the loss of that human contact which the concert hall ensures an exorbitant price to pay for this extraordinary all-round enrichment?

from 40,000 Years of Music: Man in Search of Music