THE FUSE

There was a time when size was everything. When it came to scale, functionality and power, the bigger the stereo the better. Academic papers have been written about the role of portable audio in urban culture (Landon Palmer’s ‘Do the Loud Thing: The Boombox and Urban Space in 1980s American Cinema’, for example), and the realignment of the soundscape via headphones, smartphone and small Bluetooth speakers has certainly stripped the bass out of the cityscape.